(KLZA)-- Six people, including two young children were injured in a four-vehicle wreck in St. Joseph shortly before noon Wednesday. 

The Missouri Highway Patrol reports the wreck occurred on the exit ramp from southbound Interstate 29 to U.S. Highway 169.  

32-year-old Andrea Popejoy of Falls City was southbound on Interstate 29, driving a Chevy Impala. She took the south exit to U.S. 169 and swerved to avoid a Buick LaCrosse operated by 75-year-old Robert Thompson of Gower, Missouri, w ho was stopped at the traffic signal.

The Popejoy car traveled off the west side of the road then returned to the roadway and struck the rear of the Thompson car which then struck the rear of a car driven by 49-year-old John Turner of St. Joseph. The Turner car was then pushed into a pickup driven by 43-year-old Darrren Ottinger of Agency, Missouri.

Popejoy suffered injuries described as serious. She was not wearing a safety device. Two minor children in the Popejoy vehicle, a five-year-old female and a one-year-old female were also injured, the five-year-old seriously and the one-year-old suffered minor injuries.  Neither child was wearing a safety device or in a safety seat when the wreck occurred. 

Robert Thompson and a passenger in his car, 75-year-old Elaine Thompson both suffered injuries described as minor.  John Turner, also suffered a minor injury.

All the injured parties were transported to Mosaic Life Care in St. Joseph by Buchanan County EMS