WRECKS KEEP EMERGENCY CREWS BUSY

Cape Girardeau police, emergency medical personnel and firefighters were kept busy Monday with two injury accidents and at least five non-injury accidents inside the city limits.

At about 8:30 a.m., police and paramedics were summoned to the intersection of Perryville Road and Sherwood Drive, where a truck had broadsided a car that pulled out in front of it.

Angela W. Tygett, of 1945 Robin Hood Circle, was transported Southeast Missouri Hospital where she underwent emergency surgery.

Tygett was headed east on Sherwood Drive crossing Perryville Road when she cut in front of a 1991 Dodge pickup truck, driven south on Perryville Road by Truman R. Cole, of 2105 Perryville Road.

Cole was uninjured; Tygett is listed in stable condition at Southeast Missouri Hospital.

No citations have been issued in the accident.

At about 3:45 p.m., Cape Girardeau police officers, Missouri State Highway Patrol troopers and Cape Girardeau firefighters were called to the scene of a three-car injury accident near the intersection of Rt. K and Interstate 55.

Ronald L. Trentham, of 1300 Dunklin, was extricated from his car after he was in a head-on collision with a car driven by Paul D. Lohnes, of Altenburg, Mo.

Police reports reflect that Trentham struck the guard rail in the eastbound lane of Rt. K, swerved across the center line, ricocheted off a westbound Suburban driven by Sharon M. Shores of Germantown, Tenn., and then ran into Lohnes' car.

Shores was cleared by police to leave the scene shortly after the accident.

Trentham and Martha L. Lohnes, passenger in westbound car, were transported to St. Francis Medical Center. Both were admitted to the facility and listed in stable condition Monday night.

Trentham was not wearing a seat belt. In addition to both Lohnses wearing their seat belts, the driver's side air bag of the car deployed. Officers said that it saved Paul Lohnes from serious injury.

Cape Girardeau police have not yet issued any traffic summonses.

Police worked a number of other minor accidents, but reported no further injury accidents Monday.