GLENALLEN WOMAN DIES IN ACCIDENT

A Glenallen, Mo., woman was killed and two others injured in a four-vehicle pileup on Highway 34 west of Jackson, Mo., Tuesday.

Iris Null, 20, of Glenallen was killed when her pickup truck was struck from behind and pushed into another vehicle before a car came to rest on top of her truck.

She was pronounced dead at the scene by the Cape Girardeau County coroner. Funeral arrangements were incomplete.

Sandra Horton, 39, and her mother, Dorothy Swan, 75, both of Marble Hill, Mo., also were injured in the accident. They were taken to St. Francis Medical Center.

The accident happened at 8:38 a.m. 10 miles west of Jackson, the Missouri State Highway Patrol said.

The patrol said Cledis Burchard of Greenville, Mo., was driving a tractor-trailer truck eastbound on the highway and had slowed at a highway work site as directed by a flagman. Null and Horton both had slowed behind Burchard's truck. Another tractor-trailer driven by Rex Brown of Greenville was unable to stop and hit Horton's car, causing it to run off the road and overturn in a ditch.

The truck then hit Null's truck, pushing it into the other tractor-trailer before Brown's tractor-trailer came to rest on Null's truck.

The fatal accident was one of three reported statewide Tuesday.

A second Southeast Missouri fatality was reported Tuesday in Dunklin County, where a 71-year-old Arbyrd, Mo., man died when he suffered a heart attack and his vehicle ran off the road before hitting another vehicle. Thomas Proffer died in the accident that happened at 1:10 p.m. on Dunklin County Road 610 one mile north of Arbyrd. Willa Burke, 37, also of Arbyrd, was moderately injured in the accident.

Eighty people died on Missouri highways during July, and 617 people have died in traffic accidents in Missouri this year, the patrol reported.