FRANKLIN COUNTY, MO – One person was injured in a three-vehicle crash involving a hit-and-run driver on Highway N on Wednesday night.
Police report that Dakota L. Sohn was traveling south on Highway N at Valley Drive in a 2006 Jeep Commander when she rear-ended a 2011 Subaru Forester. Sohn then traveled into oncoming traffic and struck a 1995 Chevrolet Blazer.
18-year-old Morgan M. Herrington, a passenger in the Jeep, went to Mercy Hospital Washington for minor injuries. She had been wearing a seat belt at the time of the crash.
Neither of the other two drivers was hurt.
Sohn fled the crash scene. It is not clear whether she did so in the vehicle or on foot.
All three vehicles were totaled.
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