KANSAS CITY, Mo. — An investigation is underway after a two-vehicle crash Sunday left the driver of a pickup dead and a Carroll County Sheriff’s Office deputy seriously injured.
The crash happened on MO-139 Highway, north of County Road 220, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol.
Around 2 p.m. Sunday, the driver of a 2001 Ford pick-up was driving on the wrong side of the highway when it struck a 2023 Dodge patrol vehicle.
The driver of the Ford, a 50-year-old Bosworth, Missouri, man, was pronounced deceased at the scene.
The sheriff's deputy, a 41-year-old woman from Hardin, Missouri, was transported by air ambulance to the University of Missouri Hospital in Columbia.
The crash forced the closure of the highway for several hours.
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