Trenton residents were injured on Monday in accidents in Pettis and Clinton counties.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol reported that Jose Barron IV, 19, received serious injuries in a one-vehicle accident on Monday morning. Barron’s vehicle was southbound on Highway 65, north of Deer Park Road in Pettis County, when it went off the road, striking a ditch and overturning. Barron was ejected out the rear window of the vehicle.
Barron was transported by air ambulance to the University of Missouri Hospital in Columbia for treatment of serious injuries. The car received extensive damage.
In Clinton County, Courtney Michael, 21, was injured when she was struck by a vehicle while attempting to cross Interstate 35, four miles south of Lathrop.
The patrol said a vehicle driven by Terry Osborn, 47, of Lathrop was southbound and had yielded for a sheriff’s department vehicle that was looking for Ms. Michael and had its lights activated. As the Osborn vehicle attempted to change lanes, Ms. Michael began walking from the median toward the deputy’s vehicle and into the path of the Osborn vehicle. Osborn’s vehicle struck Ms. Michael, who received minor injuries. She was taken to the Liberty Hospital for treatment.
The vehicle received minor damage.
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