MINERAL POINT, MO – A woman and a teen boy were injured yesterday morning when she rear-ended the vehicle in front of hers, the Missouri State Highway Patrol reports.
The crash happened on MO-8 near N Oak Road at about 5:40 p.m. on Thursday, when the 42-year-old Cadet resident accidentally clipped the back of a 2015 Chevrolet Equinox. The Equinox was pushed into the oncoming lanes and off the left side of the roadway, totaling it.
The woman and her teenaged passenger were taken to Washington County Memorial Hospital with minor injuries.
No one in the Equinox appears to have been hurt.
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