HOLT COUNTY—Three people were injured in an accident just after 2p.m. Tuesday in Holt County.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol reported a 2018 Ford Fusion driven by a 61-year-old Falls City, Nebraska man was southbound on U.S. 159 two miles east of Big Lake.
The driver told the Patrol he was looking at this phone. The Ford crossed the center of the road. The passenger side bumper of the Ford struck the front passenger side bumper of a northbound 2015 Buick La Crosse driven by a 71-year-old Country Club woman. After impact the Ford rotated clockwise and skidded off the road.
Atchison-Holt ambulance transported the Buick driver and a 72-year-old male passenger to Mosaic Life Care. A. private vehicle transported the Ford driver to a hospital in Falls City, Nebraska. The Patrol had incomple seat belt usage information. The Patrol no longer releases names of accident victims.