CLAY COUNTY, MO – A car and a lawn mower were involved in a fatal collision on a roadway in Clay County on Thursday afternoon.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol reports troopers were called to North Stark Avenue north of 122nd Terrace shortly after 1 p.m. Preliminary details indicated that the operator of a Skag lawn mower travelled into the road and pulled into the path of a 2013 Chevrolet Malibu heading southbound. The Malibu then struck the back of the lawn mower.
The man on the mower, an 82-year-old resident of Liberty, Missouri, was pronounced dead after being taken to Liberty Hospital. The driver of the Malibu, a 63-year-old Liberty man, was taken to the same hospital with minor injuries.
The cause of the crash remains under investigation.
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