One dead after Cape Girardeau crash

A woman injured in a Thursday morning crash at the intersection of Broadway and Clark Avenue in Cape Girardeau has died.

Cape Girardeau County Coroner John Clifton said Thursday afternoon Florence James, 81, was from Cape Girardeau.

She died at Saint Francis Medical Center after being injured when the car she was driving was struck by a minivan.

Jay Freeman, the Cape Girardeau Police Department patrolman working the crash scene Thursday morning, said a silver Dodge Caravan Sport was northbound on Clark Avenue when the crash happened.

Freeman said he was unsure of the direction of travel of the other vehicle, a maroon Oldsmobile Eighty-Eight.

"The red car may have been going westbound," Freeman said.

He said the driver of the Dodge told him he'd proceeded through a green light and didn't know where the Oldsmobile came from.

The driver of the Dodge refused medical treatment.

The woman who died and an elderly female passenger of the Oldsmobile were transported to a hospital by ambulance, battalion chief Mark Starnes of the Cape Girardeau Fire Department said.

The condition of the passenger is unknown.

Pertinent address:

Clark Avenue and Broadway, Cape Girardeau, MO