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SIKESTON -- Two Bertrand, Missouri, residents were killed in a two-vehicle accident Wednesday morning.
According to the Missouri Highway Patrol, a vehicle driven by Delbert R. Parsons, 78, of Bertrand, was northbound on US 61, two miles south of Sikeston at 11:18 a.m., when he failed to stop at a stop sign and struck by a semi-truck driven by Dennis W. Swink, 52, of Anna, Illinois.
Both Parsons and his passenger, Wanda L. Parsons, 77, were pronounced dead at the scene at 12:08 p.m. by New Madrid County Coroner George Delisle.
The deaths are the 56th and 57th in Troop E for 2020.
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