Auto accident not cause of elderly driver's death

Saturday, June 24, 2006

PATTON, Mo. --The death of a 78-year-old man found at the scene of an auto accident in Bollinger County was likely not the result of the crash. Jesse Hale, 78, of Marble, Hill, Mo., was driving a 2001 Saturn on County Road 376 just east of Patton when it ran into a ditch and overturned around 4 p.m. Thursday, the Missouri State Highway Patrol stated.

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