(KAIR)-- Two people were injured in a wreck shortly after 10 o’clock Friday evening on Interstate 29, five miles north of Amazonia, Missouri.

According to the Missouri Highway Patrol report, 17-year-old Colton Egbert of Oregon, Missouri suffered moderate injuries when he drove his car into the rear of a van, in which 65-year-old Dennie Thomas of Wathena, Kansas was a passenger. Thomas suffered minor injuries.  57-year-old Debra Thomas was the driver the van, she was not injured.  

Both vehicles were southbound.  The report indicates Egbert was not wearing a safety device at the time of the wreck.  Both occupants in the Thomas van were wearing safety devices.

Both vehicles came to a controlled stop on the shoulder of the southbound lanes of Interstate 29 following the wreck.

Ambulances from the Atchison-Holt Squad and Andrew County transported Egbert and Dennie Thomas to Mosaic Life Care in St. Joseph.