Pedestrian killed near Poplar Bluff

POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. — A Mississippi County resident was struck and killed by a truck early Wednesday.

Jacob T. Wilkerson, 29, of Bertrand, Missouri, was pronounced dead at 1:04 a.m. Wednesday by Butler County Coroner Jim Akers in an accident on U.S. 60, a half mile east of Poplar Bluff.

According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, at 12:45 a.m. Wednesday, a westbound tractor-trailer driven by Willie G. Simmons, 32, of Arbyrd, Missouri, struck Wilkerson, who was walking in the roadway. Wilkerson was taken by ambulance to the Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center’s morgue.

Pertinent address:

Poplar Bluff, Mo.