NewsAugust 30, 2002
Highway crash kills Missouri-Rolla students
ROLLA, Mo. -- Two students at the University of Missouri-Rolla were fatally injured in a collision on U.S. 63 in Phelps County late Wednesday night. Three other students and a university employee were injured. The university and the Missouri State Highway Patrol identified the victims as Patrick N. Roberts, 18, of Fenton, and John G. Locke, also 18, of St. Anne, Ill. Locke was a freshman defensive lineman for the University of Missouri-Rolla's football team...
ROLLA, Mo. -- Two students at the University of Missouri-Rolla were fatally injured in a collision on U.S. 63 in Phelps County late Wednesday night.
Three other students and a university employee were injured.
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The university and the Missouri State Highway Patrol identified the victims as Patrick N. Roberts, 18, of Fenton, and John G. Locke, also 18, of St. Anne, Ill. Locke was a freshman defensive lineman for the University of Missouri-Rolla's football team.
The Miners play their first game of the season on Saturday against Harding at Searcy, Ark.
The accident occurred at about 11:15 p.m. about eight miles south of Rolla.
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