Five injured in three-car Clinton County crash

CLINTON COUNTY, Mo. (News-Press NOW) -- Five people went to the hospital after a three-car Clinton County collision Thursday.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol reports the crash occurred around 6:55 p.m. at the intersection of Missouri Route 116 and U.S. Route 169, about 3 miles southeast of Gower, Missouri.

A 59-year-old Jefferson City woman driving east on 116 ran a stop sign, hitting a car driven by a 32-year-old Smithville woman south on 169, which collided with a car headed north on that route driven by a 61-year-old Kansas City, Missouri woman.

All three drivers suffered serious injuries, as well as a teenage passenger in the Smithville driver's car and a 63-year-old Kansas City man riding with the driver from that city.

First responders took the Smithville residents to North Kansas City Hospital and everyone else to Mosaic Life Care.

Everyone involved was wearing a seat belt, according to the crash report.