ATCHISON COUNTY— Three people were injured in an accident just before 4:30p.m. Thursday in Atchison County.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol reported a 1998 Dodge 1500 driven by a 13-year-old girl from Tarkio was eastbound on County Road 170 two miles north of Tarkio.
The driver lost control of the vehicle on loose gravel. The pickup traveled off the south side of the road, struck and embankment, overturned and a passenger identified as Adrian V. Palmer, 17, Shenandoah, IA, riding in the bed of the pickup was ejected.
Lifeflight transported Palmer to Mosaic Life Care in St. Joseph. Atchison-Holt ambulance transported Braden A. Clark, 17, Shenandoah, IA., to Shenandoah Medical Center. A private vehicle transported to the driver to Fairfax Hospital. All three were not wearing seat belts, according to the MSHP.