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Five injured in I-29 wreck

By John Nixon

08/31/2020

( KLZA_ -- Five people were injured in a two-vehicle wreck Sunday morning just before 8 on Interstate 29 approximately two miles north of Rock Port, Missouri.

Both vehicles were northbound on I-29. The Missouri Highway Patrol report indicates a car driven by 18-year-old Vanessa Fierras of Lincoln struck the towed unit of a semi-truck causing the car to overturn into the grass median, ejecting all four occupants of the Hyundai Elantra. The car came to rest on its wheels. The truck was able to come to a controlled stop.

Fierras was transported by Hamburg Resuce to Grape Hospital in Humburg, Iowa, then flown by Life Flight to Mosaic Life Care in St . Joseph with serious injuries.

All three passengers in the car were also from Lincoln and sustained serious injuries.

18-year-old Madisen Hansen and 19-year old Ahmad Gregory were first transported to the Grape Community Hospital in Hamburg by the Atchison-Holt Ambulance District. Hansen was then flown by Life Net to a hospial in Lincoln. Gregeory was trasnported to Lincoln by ambulance.

19-year-old Traishon Schmieding was transported to the Grape Community Hospital.

The truck driver, 54-year-old Rickey Haney of Melbourne, Arkansas was transferred by private vehicle to the Fairfax Hospital with minor injuries.

None of the occupants of the car were wearing safety devices while Haney, the driver of the truck was.

The Atchison County Sheriff's Department and the Rock Port Police Department assisted at the scene of the wreck.

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