(KLZA)-- Two people were hospitalized following separate wrecks Sunday in Holt County, Missouri.

The Missouri Highway Patrol reports that arournd 8:20 a.m. a southbound Chevrolet Cobalt driven by 48-year-old Karen Pender of Omaha began to pass a tractor trailor and struck the rear of a Missouri Department of Transportation truck that was plowing snow in the passing lane of Interstate 29.  Both vehicles were driven to a stop. 

Pender was transported by the Atchison -Holt Ambulance to Fairfax Community Hospital with what were described as moderate injuries.  Her vehicle was totaled.  

The truck driver,  32-year-old Brenten Hughes of Forest City was not injured in the wreck that occurred approximately five miles south of Mound City.  The Holt County Sheriff's Department assisted at the scene of he wreck.

Sunday afternoorn about 12:50 a Mobile, Alabama man,  31-year-old Garland Moore was transported to the Mosaic Hospital in St. Joseph with minor injuries when the semi he was driving south in the passing lane of Interstate 29 struck the back of a semi driven by 52-year-old Kevin Totten of Mena, Arkansas.  

Teten was not injured.  Both trucks suffered extensive damage and were towed from the scene of the wreck.

The Holt County Sheriff's Office and Missouri Department of Transporation assited the Missouri Highway Patrol at the scnee fo the wreck.