Slick roads cause crashes across county last weekend
Hwy. 39 was closed for several hours last Saturday after a rollover crash on slick roads.
Shana Harter
Highway 39 just south of Kings Harbor Resort was closed for 11 hours on Saturday as crews worked the scene of a crash on slick roads. A tractor-trailer overturned just around two p.m.after delivering to an area Dollar General store. Central Cross Fire Protection District, the Missouri Highway Patrol, and other state and county agencies and businesses fought freezing temperatures and slick roads throughout the day until about after midnight to offload the truck’s freight and clear the roadway.
Icy roads are being blamed on another crash that occurred Sunday.
Joni Armer, 40 of Lampe, and a 17-year-old female passenger, also of Lampe, were involved in a crash just west of Branson on Sunday.
According to a Missouri Highway Patrol crash report, Armer was driving a 2006 Pontiac G6 eastbound on MO-465 w miles west of Branson on Jan. 16, 2022, when she began to skid on the ice and ran off the left side of the road, struck and a ditch and overturned.
The 17-year-old passenger received moderate injuries. Neither woman was listed as wearing a safety device at the time of the crash.
Highway 39 just south of Kings Harbor Resort was closed for 11 hours on Saturday as crews worked the scene of a crash on slick roads. A tractor-trailer overturned just around two p.m.after delivering to an area Dollar General store. Central Cross Fire Protection District, the Missouri Highway Patrol, and other state and county agencies and businesses fought freezing temperatures and slick roads throughout the day until about after midnight to offload the truck’s freight and clear the roadway.
Icy roads are being blamed on another crash that occurred Sunday.
Joni Armer, 40 of Lampe, and a 17-year-old female passenger, also of Lampe, were involved in a crash just west of Branson on Sunday.
According to a Missouri Highway Patrol crash report, Armer was driving a 2006 Pontiac G6 eastbound on MO-465 w miles west of Branson on Jan. 16, 2022, when she began to skid on the ice and ran off the left side of the road, struck and a ditch and overturned.
The 17-year-old passenger received moderate injuries. Neither woman was listed as wearing a safety device at the time of the crash.