By BRENT MARTIN
St. Joseph Post
Twelve people died on Missouri roadways during the three-day Labor Day weekend, two in northwest Missouri.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol reports an Iowa teenager died early Sunday evening when his motorcycle went into a skid and struck a pick-up towing a trailer in a Nodaway County intersection.
The Missouri Highway Patrol reports 18-year-old Seger Mace of Coin, Iowa was pronounced dead at a regional hospital after the wreck at the intersection of Railroad Street and Route C in Elmo. The patrol reports Mace failed to yield at the intersection, went into a skid, and ran into the trailer. He was not wearing a helmet.
A 47-year-old Texas man died Friday when he lost control on a curve on Mitchell Road east of St. Joseph.
The patrol reports Tomas Ramos of El Paso died at the scene.
The patrol says Ramos was not buckled in and was ejected from his pickup after it went off the south side of Michell Road, struck an embankment, continued eastbound in the ditch before striking another embankment.
The patrol reports no fatal boating crashes over the Labor Day counting period and no one drowned.
The 2023 counting period began Friday evening at six o’clock and ended at midnight Monday.