82-year-old woman seriously injured in Cooper County crash

Ryan Shiner

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

An 82-year-old Boonville woman was seriously injured Tuesday morning in a crash on Highway 179 in Cooper County, just another of Highland School Road, according to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report.

The report says that that the woman was driving a 2021 Buick Encore northbound when it went off the left side of the road and hit a mailbox. The vehicle then went off the right side of the road and hit a culvert, the report says.

The woman was wearing a seatbelt, the report says. She was brought to University Hospital by ambulance. The Buick had extensive damage, the report says.

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