Five killed on Missouri highways over Labor Day weekend; 1 drowns in Lake
Matthew Sanders
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)
EDITOR’S NOTE: The day of the drowning has been corrected from Friday to Saturday.
Five people were killed in crashes on state highways, and another person drowned over the Labor Day weekend in Missouri.
The five deaths were part of 222 crashes resulting in 204 injuries reported by the Missouri State Highway Patrol on Tuesday. The holiday weekend period, for the patrol’s purposes, started at 6 p.m. Friday and ended Monday night.
None of the people killed on the roads was from Mid-Missouri. One victim, 16, died in a crash on private property in McDonald County.
The patrol made 100 DWI arrests and four drug arrests on the roads, according to a news release from MSHP.
One person drowned over the weekend — a 19-year-old Glenwood, Illinois, man went under and didn’t resurface Saturday at the Lake of the Ozarks.
The patrol worked three boat crashes with four injuries. Troopers made nine boating while intoxicated arrests, the release says.