Four killed in NW Mo crash
07/17/2020

(KNZA)--Four St. Joseph, Missouri residents were killed Thursday afternoon in a single-vehicle roll-over wreck about 9 miles northeast of St. Joseph in Andrew County.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol reports 61-year-old Twila Obanion was southbound on U.S. 169 when her SUV traveled off the roadway and struck a driveway culvert. The vehicle went airborne and overturned several times.

Obanion and three passengers were ejected from the vehicle. 

Twila Obanion and two of the passengers, 45-year-old Kimberly Walker and 46-year-old Sharry Dawn, were pronounced dead at the scene.

The third passenger, 81-year-old Darlene Obanion, was transported to Mosaic Life Care, in St. Joseph, were she was pronounced dead.

A fourth passenger, a two-year-old boy, was also transported by ambulance to the hospital, although the Patrol report doesn't list him as being injured.

He was the only occupant that was buckled up when the wreck occurred at about 4:00.


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