(KLZA)-- Two people suffered minor injuries in separate single vehicle wrecks Thursday morning in Atchison County, Missouri.

The Missouri Highway Patrol reported the first wreck occurred at 5:45 a.m. a mile south of Fairfax on Missouri Highway 46.

81-year-old Joyce Strough of Skidmore was driving west on Highway 46 and failed to stop at the intersection of Highway 46 and 59. Her car traveled off the road and struck an embankment.

Strough was transported by the Atchison – Holt EMS to the Fairfax Community Hospital.

The second wreck occurred about 7:20 a.m. on Missouri Highway 46, East of Route N, four miles south of Fairfax. 24-year-old McKinley Daniels of Fairfax was eastbound in a car that struck a deer crossing the road. Daniels was transported to the Fairfax Community Hospital by the Atchison-Holt Ambulance Squad

The drivers in both wrecks were wearing safety devices at the time of the wrecks.