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RAY COUNTY, MO – One teenager was killed and another injured when their vehicle crashed in Ray County Friday night, the Missouri State Highway Patrol said.
The incident occurred on Atkins Road near Route C shortly before 9 p.m. According to the MSHP, a 17-year-old male was driving a 2002 Ford truck and lost control as the vehicle crested a hill.
The truck began to skid, went off the left side of the roadway, overturned and collided with a tree before coming to rest.
The driver, a resident of Liberty, Missouri, was pronounced dead at the scene. A passenger, a 15-year-old boy from Lawson, Missouri, was seriously injured and airlifted to Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City. The driver was not wearing a seat belt but the passenger was, state troopers said.
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