<img src="http://www.joplinglobeonline.com/images/zope/policeandfire.gif" border=0 > Several motorists hurt in accidents on roads in area

August 12, 2009 01:30 am

Two people were injured in a two-vehicle accident at 1:25 p.m. Tuesday on Highway 37, a half-mile west of Cassville in Barry County, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol.
One of the drivers, Jackie L. Craig, 43, of Exeter, and her passenger, Rebecca Cotham, 42, of Washburn, were taken to St. John’s Hospital in Cassville, the state patrol said.
The patrol said a westbound pickup truck driven by Orville W. Hood, 58, of Cassville, turned into the path of the southbound Craig vehicle.
n A Rocky Comfort woman was injured in a single-vehicle crash at 3:50 a.m. Tuesday on Highway 76, five miles east of Anderson in McDonald County, the state patrol said.
Julie L. Soole, 24, was taken to Freeman Neosho Hospital, the patrol said.
Soole lost control of her eastbound vehicle on a curve, and it ran off the road and overturned, the patrol said.
n A Nevada, Mo., teenager was injured in a single-vehicle crash at 9:26 p.m. Monday on Overland Road, a quarter-mile south of Nevada in Vernon County, the state patrol said.
Sable M. Kennedy, 16, was taken to Nevada Regional Medical Center, the patrol said.
Kennedy was a passenger in a westbound vehicle driven by Thomas P. Millirons, 17, of Milo. The vehicle failed to negotiate a left turn, ran off the road and struck a culvert, the patrol said.

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