Sep 04, 2022

4-year-old Missouri boy dies after jeep overturns

Posted Sep 04, 2022 11:30 AM

MORGAN COUNTY —A juvenile died in an accident just after 3p.m. Saturday in Morgan County.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol reported a 2014 Jeep Wrangler driven by Larry A. Lunnin, 40, Rocky Mount, was southbound on Route W just south of Marvin Cuttoff.

The Jeep traveled off the road, struck a sign and overturned. A 4-year-old passenger from Rocky Mount was pronounced dead at the scene. "The boy was not properly restrained in an age appropriate child restraint."  

Lunnin and  a 7-year-old boy from Rocky Mount refused treatment.