WASHINGTON COUNTY, MO – A single-vehicle crash on Missouri 21 in Washington County on Wednesday night left a motorist dead, the Missouri State Highway Patrol reported.
The MSHP’s preliminary invesetigation found that the driver of a 2000 Dodge Durango was traveling southbound at about 8:24 p.m. when he traveled off the east road edge near Cannon Mines Road.
The vehicle began to skid, struck an embankment, and overturned.
The driver, a 22-year-old man from Mineral Point, Missouri, was ejected from the vehicle and pronounced dead at the scene. He was not wearing a seat belt at the time the accident occurred, state troopers said.
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