TRUCK KILLS CHARLESTON MAN

WYATT -- A Charleston man was killed Saturday morning when he was struck by a tractor trailer on U.S. Highway 60 near Wyatt.

The Missouri Highway Patrol said Christopher Hale, 32, was passed out and laying on the road when he was hit. The accident happened at about 4:30 a.m.

The tractor trailer was driven by Dewan Medlin, 35, of Niangua, Mo.

Funeral arrangements are being handled by McMikle Funeral Home in Charleston.

At 11:55 p.m. Friday, a Millersville man was injured in a one-vehicle accident 10 miles north of Wardell in Bollinger County, the patrol reported.

Christopher Lincoln, 22, was driving north on Highway 51 when his pick-up truck ran off the left side of the road, struck and ditch and embankment. He was taken by air ambulance to Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau.