Posted November 02, 2021 10:55am
(KLZA)-- Two wrecks in Holt County resulted in minor injuries Sunday and Monday.
The Missouri State Patrol reports that Sunday night just before 10:30 a Volkwagen Jetta operated by 39-year-old Jason Hoffman of Forest City, MO. Traveled off the side of US-59 Highway approximately one-and-a-half miles east of Oregon and struck an embankment causing the car to overturn, coming to rest on its top.
Hoffman was transported by Atchison – Holt EMS to Mosaic Life Care Hospital in St. Joseph. The Holt County Sheriff's Department and the South Holt County Fire Department also responded to the scene.
The car was totaled.
Monday morning just past 6:30, 60-year-old Dale Black of Forest City was southbound on Interstate 29 approximately four miles east of Oregon when his Chevy Cruze traveled off the west side of the road, struck a mile marker sign and a tree.
Black was also transported by The Atchison-Holt Ambulance to Mosaic Life Care Hospital in St. Joseph with minor injuries. The pickup was totaled.