JACKSON COUNTY —One person died in an accident just after 11p.m. Saturday in Jackson County.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol reported a Volkswagen Jetta driven by a 16-year-old Odessa boy was eastbound on Interstate 70 just west of Adams Dairy Parkway.
The car struck a pedestrian in the road identified as 24-year-old Annamarie L. Ramirez of Independence.
Ramirez was pronounced dead at the scene and the coroner transported her to the medical examiner's office.