West Plains Driver Seriously Injured After Overturn Crash

Pomona, MO. – A vehicle is totaled and the driver has been hospitalized following an overturn crash on Highway 63, 2 miles North of Pomona.

Corporal J.D. Wheeler of the Missouri State Highway Patrol, Troop G was the responding investigator of this crash that occurred at roughly 5:45 pm yesterday, August 23rd. In assistance was Master Sergeant R.M. Greenan.

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Kristen Smallwood, 27, was driving Southbound in a Hyundai Sonata when she left the left side of the roadway. She then traveled down the embankment, struck a concrete cube, went airborne, struck signs from MoDOT, and then overturned.

Smallwood was not wearing a safety device at the time of the crash and had to be transported to Ozarks Healthcare for treatment. Her injuries were listed as being serious in severity.

Link to the crash report. 

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