Men fighting on highway hit and killed by truck

FISK, Mo. -- An earlier domestic altercation between a Fisk, Mo., stepfather and his stepson resulted in the men wrestling in the roadway Saturday night, where they were struck by a truck and killed, according to authorities.

Dustin A. Binkard, 18, and his 29-year-old stepfather, Charles A. Price, apparently "got into some kind of domestic" at the home, and Binkard left on foot, said Missouri State Highway Cpl. Clark Parrott, Troop E's public information officer. "The dad drove down to wherever the son was" to go get him.

Price apparently found Binkard on Highway 51, about one mile west of Fisk.

"A fight ensued in the roadway in the rain," said Parrott, who had been through the area about an hour earlier and described it as raining heavily, "coming sideways. It was dark; it was wet."

About 6:45 p.m., a 2000 Chevrolet pickup, which was being driven west by Roger A. Mannon, 56, of Fisk, struck the men.

"They were in the roadway, on the ground, wrestling when a car came along and hit them," Parrott said.

Binkard and Price were pronounced dead at the scene. According to earlier reports, they died of multiple system/blunt force trauma caused by the truck.

Parrott said reports of the two men fighting with knives were incorrect.

"I don't know where all the rumors of a knife fight" came from, said Parrott. "There was a small pocket knife located at the scene.

"Dad had a scrape or two on him from it, but they were small cuts. ... It was just a tragic car crash."