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(KLZA)-- A Rock Port teenager suffered serous injuries in a single vehicle wreck early Thursday morning on US-59 Highway about a quarter-of-a-mile north of Fairfax.
The Missouri Highway Patrol report says 17-year-old Austin Wallace was southbound in a pickup about 2:50 a.m. when his pickup traveled off the roadway, over a ditch, became airborne and impacted the ditch and began to overturn.
The pickup came to rest on its wheels.
Wallace, who was not wearing a safety device was transported by the Atchison – Holt Ambulance District to the Fairfax Hospital and then on to the Nebraska Medical Center at Omaha.
The pickup was totaled.
The Atchison County Sheriff's Department assisted at the scene.
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