A Cape Girardeau woman was seriously injured Friday when the car she was driving went off a road and struck a tree in Perry County.
Dorothy Koenig, 53, was taken to Perry County Memorial Hospital in Perryville, Mo., after the 10:30-a.m. accident on Route B at Perry County Road 502.
In a two-vehicle accident Thursday at Dielstadt, Mo., in Scott County, 50-year-old Linda Burns of Charleston, Mo., suffered moderate injuries. She was taken to Missouri Delta Medical Center at Sikeston, Mo., after the 2:55-p.m. accident.
The driver of the other vehicle, Derick Bramlett, 18, of Sikeston, was not injured.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol said Burns' vehicle attempted to turn left and drove into the path of the Bramlett vehicle.
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