Posted September 26, 2017 10:10am
(KLZA)-- Two Tarkio teenage girls were injured Sunday afternoon in an ATV wreck in Tarkio.
The Missouri Highway Patrol report indicates 15-year-old Lexi Somerville was the driver of the ATV which was westbound on Maple Street, traveled off the road and struck a utility pole, causing Somerville and a passenger, 17-year old Jamie Hendrix to be ejected.
Lexi Somerville was transported by the Atchison-Holt Ambulance to the Shenandoah Medical Center at Shenandoah, Iowa for treatment of moderate injuries. Jamie Hendrix was taken by private vehicle to the Fairfax Community Hospital for treatment of minor injures.
The Atchison County Sheriff’s Office and Westboro Fire Department assisted at the scene of the wreck.