Several injured in Memorial Day weekend accidents on state highways

Several Southeast Missouri residents were injured as a results of vehicle accidents over Memorial Day weekend, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol.

Four Jackson residents sustained moderate injuries in a two-vehicle crash Saturday, when 16-year-old Cody Lunsford failed to yield to another car at the Route W and Route Y intersection three miles east of Jackson.

Five-year-old Zariya Hitchcock, a passenger of Lunsford's, was transported to a hospital. The occupants of the vehicle that was struck, driver Lacy Garder, 17, Audrey Rea, 12, and Brittney Rea, 15, were also injured. Audrey Rea was brought to an area hospital via a private vehicle.

Just after midnight Saturday, a Leopold, Mo. woman and a Marble Hill, Mo., man were injured in a crash on Route CC in Bollinger County. Rachel Vance, 17, failed to negotiate a curve, ran off the road, struck a power pole and overturned the vehicle. While she was transported by ambulance to Saint Francis Medical Center her passenger, Levi Snider, 23, sought his own medical care, according to the highway patrol.

Later Sunday, a Chaffee, Mo., family of three, Seth, 7, Joni, 31, and Jaeson Fraser, 35, suffered minor injuries after another vehicle failed to yield and turned in front of them at Highway 74 in Dutchtown. The driver of the vehicle who failed to yield, Charles David, 19, of Gordonville, also had minor injuries. The accident occurred around 5:10 p.m.

Pertinent address:

Highway W and Highway Y, Jackson, MO

Route CC, Marble Hill, MO

Dutchtown, MO