THREE ACCIDENTS IN REGION CAUSE MODERATE INJURIES

Moderate injuries resulted from three separate accidents that occurred Friday in Troop E District of the Missouri Highway Patrol.

The first accident occurred in Bollinger County at 7:49 a.m. on Highway 34, three miles west of Marble Hill.

Driver Karen Householder, 17, of Glen Allen was taken to St. Francis Medical Center with moderate injuries..

The other driver was Pat Wissman, 41, of Cape Girardeau.

A patrol spokesman said the Householder vehicle failed to yield right of way and was struck by the Wissman vehicle.

Neither driver was wearing a seat belt, the spokesman said.

A single-vehicle accident occurred at 2:15 p.m. on Route C at New Wells.

The driver, Carrie Borst, 24, of Frohna received moderate injuries and was taken to Southeast Missouri Hospital. Her passengers, Samantha Borst, 4, and Jonathan Borst, 5, both had minor injuries.

The spokesman said the vehicle ran off the right shoulder and down an embankment and overturned into a rain-swollen creek. A passing motorist removed all three from the vehicle.

They were wearing seat belts.

The third accident occurred at 5:49 p.m., 1 1/2 miles west of Benton on County Road 250.

Suffering moderate injuries were Nathaniel Ware, 21, of Marble Hill and his passenger, Jason Deckard, 20, of Advance. Both were taken to St. Francis Medical Center.

Also sustaining moderate injuries was Victoria Eftink, 46, of Oran. Her passenger, Amanda Chapman, 16, of Oran sustained minor injuries. They were taken to Southeast Missouri Hospital.

The patrol spokesman said the Ware vehicle lost control on a curve while traveling too fast for road conditions, crossed the center of the road and struck the Eftink vehicle head-on.

Everyone in the vehicles was wearing a seat belt.