January 7, 2010

Wyaconda Woman Life Flighted From Accident Scene

A Wyaconda woman suffered serious injuries in a one-vehicle accident on an unmarked county road in Clark County on New Year’s Day.

According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, Jessica D. Humes, 21, was eastbound on a gravel road in a 2001 Ford F150 when she lost control of the truck on the ice covered roadway. The truck went off the roadway and overturned in the ditch.

The accident occurred at 6:23 P.M. roughly one mile from Route W.

Humes was flown from the scene of the accident to University Hospital in Columbia.

A passenger in the vehicle, Patrick E. Parsons, 20, of Memphis, suffered minor injuries and was transported by private conveyance to Scotland County Memorial Hospital in Memphis.