Suspect sought in Stoddard County hit and run

DEXTER, Mo. -- A Saturday night accident on U.S. 60 just inside Dexter city limits sent two to the hospital and has police looking for the driver they think is responsible.

A vehicle driven by Anna Edwards of Bloomfield, Mo., was struck in the rear at about 9 p.m. as she was westbound on U.S. 60. The collision caused the vehicles to leave the road. Edwards managed to steer her vehicle back onto the highway where it overturned before coming to rest several hundred feet from where the collision took place.

Edwards was ejected from the driver's seat. Her husband, C.G. Edwards, was a passenger in the vehicle. Both received serious injuries.

The driver of the second vehicle never regained control of his vehicle, crossing through the median and the eastbound lanes of U.S. 60, traveling about 70 yards into a field on the south side of the highway before coming to rest, authorities said, and fled before police arrived.

Anna Edwards was airlifted from the scene to a Cape Girardeau hospital. She was transferred to Barnes Jewish Hospital in St. Louis. Her husband was taken to a Cape Girardeau hospital. Family members said both are improving.

Pertinent address:

Dexter, MO

Bloomfield, MO