(KLZA)--Weather appears to have been a factor in a pair of injury accidents in Holt County, Missouri on Thursday afternoon, June 4th.
The Missouri Highway Patrol reports that at about 5:10 p.m. a wreck occurred in the northbound lanes of Interstate 29 approximately 7 miles north of Craig, Missouri.
A car driven by a 51-year-old Omaha, Nebraska woman began to hydroplane and traveled into the lane of a pickup operated by a 44-year-old male from Brooking, South Dakota.
The car traveled off the east side of the road into an embankment. The driver was transported by the Atchison-Holt Ambulance to the Fairfax Community Hospital with what appeared to be moderate injuries.
The car was totaled. The pickup suffered extensive damage but was driven from the scene.
A short time later at about 5:20 p.m. in the southbound lanes of I-29, approximately 3 miles north of Mound City, a pickup operated by a 51-year-old woman from Macomb, Missouri was southbound when her pickup began to slide on the wet road, ran off the east side of the road and struck a guardrail
The woman suffered what the Missouri Highway Patrol termed minor injuries and was transported by the Atchison-Holt Ambulance to Mosaic Life Care hospital in St. Joseph.
Only moderate damage was reported to the pickup.








