Fatal wreck kills 20-year-old man on Kingshighway

Friday, July 26, 2002

Jeremy Lee Pender, 20, of Gordonville, Mo., was killed Thursday afternoon when his 1994 Honda motorcycle struck the passenger side of a 1992 Mercury Grand Marquis driven by Herald Turner Dodds Jr. of Cape Girardeau. Pender was wearing a helmet. Dodds was not injured. Pictured in the photograph are Cape Girardeau police officers and a tow truck driver cleaning up after the crash.

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