CASS COUNTY, MO – A collision involving a wrong-way driver killed two women in Cass County Monday afternoon, the Kansas City Star reports.
The accident happened near the Missouri 291 and Interstate 49 interchange at about 1:10 p.m. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, 77-year-old Sandra C. Hammond of Belton, Missouri was driving a Toyota Highlander when she took the wrong ramp and ending up driving north in the southbound lanes of I-49.
The Toyota crashed head-on into a Chevrolet SUV driven by 73-year-old Janna L. Dillon of Clinton, Missouri. Both women were pronounced dead at the scene.
A third vehicle was hit in the wreck, but that driver, age 51, was not injured.
The southbound lanes of Interstate 49 were closed for several hours for the crash investigation.
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