May 19, 2021 | Traffic Accidents
A Winston woman received minor injuries in a two-vehicle accident on May 14 on U.S. 69 at Route BB, four miles north of Cameron. Sandra K. Bridgeman, 68, was northbound on U.S. 69 in a 2009 Chevy when a 2008 Buick driven by a male juvenile, age 17 of Cameron, failed...
May 19, 2021 | Traffic Accidents
Two juveniles were seriously injured around 9:50 p.m. on May 15 on Sunset Avenue and 260th Street, five miles southeast of Gallatin. One 16-year-old male juvenile from Gallatin was driving a 1995 GMC Sierra which failed to negotiate a turn. The driver was wearing a...
May 5, 2021 | Law Enforcement, Traffic Accidents
An Overland Park, KS, man was arrested April 27 after he struck a MoDOT truck with the 2018 Acura that he was driving on southbound I-35 at the 64 mile marker. James Carpenter, 40, was taken to Daviess-DeKalb County Regional Jail for leaving scene of accident,...
May 5, 2021 | Traffic Accidents
A four-year-old Hamilton boy fell from the bed of a pickup on May 1 and was then struck by a trailer which was behind the truck. The truck was traveling southbound on private property on State Route CC near Hamilton. The boy was seriously injured and was taken by...
Apr 28, 2021 | Traffic Accidents
A 31-year-old Cameron man was flown by Lifeflight Eagle medical helicopter to Truman Medical Center in Kansas City after being ejected through the sunroof of his car, in an accident that occurred about 7:55 p.m. on April 24 about one mile south of Pattonsburg on U.S....
Apr 28, 2021 | Traffic Accidents
A Cameron woman, Mary Probert, 69, was seriously injured in a one-vehicle accident which occurred eight miles west of Old Pattonsburg around 8:15 p.m. on April 23. Probert was driving a 2015 Nissan Rogue northbound on Route D when she failed to stop at a stop sign,...
Apr 28, 2021 | Traffic Accidents
A 55-year-old Gilman City man received minor injuries when he failed to negotiate a curve in Old Pattonsburg and overturned the 2020 Kenworth truck he was driving. The truck was traveling west on Route Z on April 23 before it ran off the north side of the road and...
Apr 21, 2021 | Law Enforcement, Traffic Accidents
Speeding and other reckless driving behaviors continues to be a disturbing trend in 2021 according to the Missouri Department of Transportation. During the first quarter of the year, there were 176 fatalities in Missouri as a result of traffic crashes. Though down...
Apr 9, 2021 | Law Enforcement, Traffic Accidents
A 46-year-old man, Matthew Martin of Preston, ID, was pronounced dead at the scene of an accident that occurred around 12:40 a.m. April 2 on northbound I-35, 10 miles south of Pattonsburg, according to the Highway Patrol. Christopher Ellis, 26, Cedar Rapids, IA, was...
Apr 5, 2021 | Law Enforcement, Traffic Accidents
Two tractor trailers were demolished in a collision which blocked northbound I-35 in a construction zone on March 31 in Clinton County, approximately four miles northeast of Lathrop. Both semis were northbound when one slowed for traffic and was struck from behind....
Mar 24, 2021 | Law Enforcement, Traffic Accidents
Two pickup trucks pulling trailers collided in an accident five miles east of Gallatin on March 17, resulting in injuries to three passengers. At approximately 6:40 a.m., a 1994 Ford F350 driven by Robert J. Reed, 25, Trenton, was using a private drive to conduct a...
Mar 10, 2021 | Community News, Law Enforcement, Traffic Accidents
A Jamesport local fled from an officer and was charged with multiple driving violations and DWI on March 6. Trooper M. Cline tried to stop a white pickup driven by Keenan Critten, 43, for failure to use signals. Critten ignored the flashing lights and siren and sped...
Mar 10, 2021 | Traffic Accidents
A New Hampton man rolled his vehicle on Route DD, five miles south of Pattonsburg, in the early morning on March 9. Driver Shaun R. Hurt, 34, was traveling southbound in a 2001 Jeep Grand Cherokee when he drove off the east side of the roadway and overturned. The...
Mar 3, 2021 | City/Local Government, Community News, Traffic Accidents
At approximately 2:30 p.m. on Feb. 25, a semi-truck turned into the alley behind Barton’s Hardware and Elbert’s Department Store and hit a telephone pole. The pole wedged between the semi’s cab and the drive wheels. The driver was new and didn’t have experience with...
Feb 24, 2021 | Community News, Traffic Accidents
Missouri Department of Transportation warns drivers of pothole repairs this spring due to the harsh weather from the month of February. Potholes are forming early because of the freezing water in the pavement’s crevasses causing the road to bulge and the fluctuating...
Feb 24, 2021 | Law Enforcement, Traffic Accidents
A Kidder resident was involved in a minor accident in Cameron on Feb. 17. Though she walked away unharmed, the other driver received minimal injuries. Tara Richardson, 32, Kidder, was traveling northbound on Bob F. Griffin in a 2020 Acura MDX at the same time that...
Feb 10, 2021 | Traffic Accidents
A Gallatin girl, age seven, sustained a bloody nose at an intersection in Trenton when a car slid into the tractor-trailer on Feb. 4. Trenton police reported that the accident happened at the intersection of ninth and Harris. Car driver Devin McCray, 37, was traveling...
Feb 10, 2021 | Law Enforcement, Traffic Accidents
Buckner Lewis, 55, Ridgeway, hit the end of a guard rail in a 2013 Nissan Murano, four miles south of Pattonsburg at 10:32 am on Feb. 4. The vehicle was traveling northbound on I-35 just outside of Pattonsburg when it traveled off the west side of the road and struck...
Feb 10, 2021 | Law Enforcement, Traffic Accidents
A 1992 Chevy Pickup lost control and ended up in a ditch on US 36, one mile south of Kidder, around 11 a.m. on Feb. 8. The driver Joshua S. Rauber, 37, Cameron, was traveling westbound on US 36 when he lost control of his pickup, presumedly because of the hazardous...
Feb 9, 2021 | Law Enforcement, Traffic Accidents
Crash involving three vehicles four miles east of Jamesport resulted in the death of Trenton woman Valerie Johnson on Feb. 4. Kenneth Talley, 70, Trenton, was driving a 2001 Ford Ranger eastbound on MO-6 with Valerie Johnson, 56, Trenton, in the vehicle. The other two...
