BENTON COUNTY, MO – According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, a wrong-way driver fatally collided with another vehicle on Highway H near Black Oak Church Road on Wednesday.
A 44-year-old man was driving a 2015 Ford F450 north on Highway H when he crossed the center line and hit a 2013 Ford Edge operated by a 44-year-old woman at 7:25 p.m.
First responders pronounced the Edge driver dead at the scene. Her passenger, an 11-year-old girl, was hospitalized with minor injuries. The other driver also suffered minor injuries.
Nobody involved in the collision was wearing a seatbelt.
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