Man waiting in bus shelter killed when vehicle runs off street

A man standing in a bus shelter in Kansas City was struck and killed Monday by a vehicle that ran off the road, police said.

The victim was a Kansas City man whose identity was not released by police. He died at a hospital about 10:30 a.m. Police said the victim saw the vehicle coming and tried to escape.

Police said a 16-year-old who drove the vehicle ran from the accident and telephoned his mother, who took him back to the scene.

Seven people died in Missouri traffic accidents during the Labor Day holiday weekend, compared with nine over the same weekend last year.

Gordon L. Arnold, 51, of Pierce City, was killed Monday night in a Barry County collision. The Missouri State Highway Patrol said his pickup crossed the center line on U.S. 60 about a mile west of Monett and struck another truck nearly head-on.

David Crowe, 15, of Bolivar, was killed Monday night when a tractor overturned in Greene County, on a rural road north of Springfield.

The boy was apparently in the area to help his uncle move the tractor, said David Brown, an investigator with the Greene County medical examiner's office.

"It's fairly frequent for kids that age to drive tractors on country roads," Brown said.

William A. Cook, 18, of Doniphan, died Sunday night after his car ran off a state road and hit a tree about four miles south of Doniphan.

Earlier Sunday, a crash near Springfield killed a Fordland woman. Sondra Cook, 64, was a passenger in a vehicle that left a Greene County road three miles east of Springfield and struck a tree, the highway patrol said.

Michael E. Jones of Kansas City was fatally injured early Sunday in a collision at U.S. 71 and East 59th Street in Kansas City, police said.

On Saturday, a pedestrian from Neelyville died after stepping into the path of a car. Toby A. Sampson, 35, was walking along U.S. 67 about two miles south of Neelyville in southeastern Missouri. Sampson was pronounced dead at the scene.