By BRENT MARTIN
St. Joseph Post
A teen-age girl died after the pick-up she was riding in ran off the road, went down a steep embankment, and landed on its top in a creek just north of De Kalb late Sunday evening.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol reports 18-year-old Cassandra Donaldson of Faucett was rushed from the scene to Mosaic Life Care in St. Joseph where she was pronounced dead.
The patrol says the three-quarter ton pick-up was traveling north on Highway JJ shortly before midnight when the driver, 18-year-old Wyatt Gardner of Rushville, attempted to turn right on Old North Road and lost control of the truck. The pick-up went off the south side of the highway, running down a steep embankment, driving into the creek, coming to rest on its top.
Gardner suffered minor injuries. A 15-year-old passenger was uninjured in the accident.