16-year-old Missouri teen hospitalized after crash with semi-truck near Bethany
ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (News-Press NOW) -- A Daviess County teenager was transported to the hospital Tuesday evening following a two-vehicle crash on Interstate 35 south of Bethany, Missouri.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol reports a two-vehicle collision involving a semi-truck and an SUV occurred around 5:20 p.m. Tuesday on southbound I-35 roughly a mile south of Bethany, Missouri, in Harrison County.
A 16-year-old female from Coffey, Missouri, was approaching the rear of a 2000 Kenworth semi-truck when she overcorrected in a 2007 Chevy Impala while attempting to change lanes to avoid the semi.
The teen overcorrected and struck the driver's side of the semi, forcing the Impala to leave the east side of the highway before coming to rest upright.
The teen was taken by North Missouri EMS to Harrison County Community Hospital with moderate injuries. Both drivers were wearing seat belts at the time of the crash.
The driver of the semi-truck, a 71-year-old man from Ottumwa, Iowa, was able to come to a controlled stop after the collision and was unharmed, according to a crash report from MSHP.
