AUDRAIN COUNTY, MO – Authorities responded to the scene of a fatal wreck in Audrain County on Wednesday evening, according to a KOMU report.
Two vehicles collided head-on along Missouri 22 near Audrain County Road 215. shortly after 6 p.m. The Missouri State Highway Patrol stated that a driver was headed westbound and crashed into a vehicle headed in the opposite direction. The driver of the second vehicle had gone off the right side of the road and overcorrected, causing the vehicle to cross the center of the roadway.
The driver of the first vehicle, a 36-year-old woman from Thompson, was pronounced dead at the scene. Her passenger, an 11-year-old girl, and the driver of the second vehicle, a 16-year-old boy, were both seriously injured and taken to University Hospital.
Missouri 22 was blocked during the accident response and investigation, and had reopened by the following morning.
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