A Seligman resident was killed and three other people were injured in a three-vehicle accident at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday on Highway 90, less than two miles from Highway 37 in Barry County, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol.
One of the drivers, Ricky D. Taylor, 51, was pronounced dead at Cox Medical Center South in Springfield, the patrol said. Taken to the same hospital were a second driver, Vang C. Lee, 57, and his passengers, Pazoe Lee, 15, and Yee Thao, 47, all of Washburn, the patrol said.
The patrol said the accident happened as Taylor was attempting to pass a westbound pickup truck driven by David E. Wickman, 70, of Washburn, and Taylor’s car struck Lee’s eastbound car head-on. Lee’s car then struck Wickman’s pickup truck, the patrol said.
n A Springfield man was injured in a single-vehicle accident at 7:35 p.m. Wednesday on County Road 2010, five miles west of Phelps in Lawrence County, the state patrol said.
Elijah A. Long, 20, was taken to Cox Medical Center South in Springfield, the patrol said.
Long was driving an eastbound vehicle that ran off the road and overturned, the patrol said.
n A Seligman resident was injured in a single-vehicle accident at 5:20 p.m. Wednesday on County Road 1075, two miles south of Exeter in Barry County, the state patrol said.
Darrell W. Clubb, 30, was treated at St. John’s Hospital in Cassville and released, the patrol said.
Clubb was driving a northbound car that ran off the road, struck a fence and overturned before striking a utility pole, the patrol said.
n Three Neosho residents were injured in a single-vehicle accident at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday on Route CC, a half-mile south of Racine in Newton County, the state patrol said.
The driver, Clifford S. Castleberry, 78, and two passengers, Evelyn M. Castleberry, 67, and Helen E. Prince, 91, were taken to Freeman Hospital West in Joplin, the patrol said.
The southbound car ran off the road and struck a tree, the patrol said.
n A 22-year-old man was injured in a single-vehicle accident at 11:01 p.m. Wednesday in the parking lot of the Home Depot store in Pittsburg, Kan., according to the Pittsburg Police Department.
Brandon Shultz, of Pittsburg, was taken by ambulance to Mount Carmel Regional Medical Center in Pittsburg, police said.
Shultz’s car that struck a light pole in the lot, causing his vehicle’s air bags to deploy and injure his head, the report said.
Local News
<img src="http://www.joplinglobeonline.com/images/zope/policeandfire.gif" border=0 > Barry County accident kills Seligman man
- Local News
-
-
Electric bill to drop $6 a month in Joplin
The Missouri Public Service Commission has approved a request filed by The Empire District Electric Company, based in Joplin, to lower the fuel adjustment charge (FAC) on the bills of its electric customers.
-
Mo. Legislature officially ends its 2012 session
Missouri's annual legislative session has officially come to a close.
-
Strong to severe storms forecast for Joplin region
Storms developing across the central and southern plains this afternoon are expected to migrate into the Joplin region this evening.
-
Economic-development strategies posed for Joplin region
More than 30 people shared ideas Wednesday on ways to promote economic development in the seven counties that are participating in the Joplin Regional Prosperity Initiative.
-
Kansas primary filing deadline near
Kansas candidates have until noon Friday for file for county offices in the Aug. 7 primary.
-
Date set to reintroduce rare beetle in Missouri
An endangered species of beetle will be reintroduced in southwest Missouri on June 5.
-
Senators: Missouri River flooding unifying moment
Two U.S. senators who symbolize disagreements between upstream and downstream states over management of the Missouri River say last year’s historic flooding was a unifying moment.
-
First-ever electricity for parts of India
The solar power company SunEdison is launching a program to get electricity for the first time to more than two dozen villages in India.
-
Couple 'scoop out' ice cream business from the past
When 3-year-old Brynlee Rabel tried coconut ice cream for the first time Tuesday, it was love at first taste. “She got the vanilla, but when she tasted my coconut ice cream she had to have it,” said Kayleigh Daugherty, a Joplin resident who wanted Brynlee to share the same experience she had as a little girl when she visited Anderson’s Ice Cream.
-
Missouri National Guard releases records involving soldiers who looted from Wal-Mart
The Missouri National Guard has released records confirming that four soldiers were disciplined for taking merchandise from the ruins of a Wal-Mart store in Joplin one day after the tornado that devastated the city a year ago.
- More Local News Headlines
-
Electric bill to drop $6 a month in Joplin
