(KLZA)-- One woman is dead and four other people suffered minor injuries in a crash on Interstate 29 in Atchison County, Missouri Wednesday evening.

The Missouri Highway Patrol reports 38-year-old Jovannah Ross of Omaha, was was northbound on I-29 about three miles south of Rock Port when her car began to slide, crossed the grass median and entered the southbound lanes. The passenger side of the car struck the front of a southbound car.

Ross was pronounced dead at the scene. 

The driver of the second vehicle,  34-year-old Emily Ptacnik of Omaha and three juvenile passengers,  ages 2, 4 and 6 were transported by private vehicle to Mosaic Life Care in St. Joseph with what were described as minor injuries.    

Both vehicles were totaled.

The wreck was reported shortly after 7:30.