Just after 4:15 yesterday the Boone County Fire District was called to a reported accident on Highway 22 just east of Highway 151. The initial report was a two car accident with unknown injuries. As units were responding, further information was received stating a two vehicle head-on crash with injuries.

Firefighters on Engine 601, located in Sturgeon, arrived and found a two vehicle head-on crash with confirmed extrication and two victims unconscious and not breathing. Firefighters immediately called the Staff for Life helicopter to respond. Firefighters extricated one patient, 30 year old Melissa Blalock of Moberly who was transported to University Hospital by helicopter with serious injuries. The other two victims in the 1988 Volvo Station Wagon, driver Margaret Hutchings age 68 of Moberly and passenger Aquilla Britt age 51 also of Moberly were pronounced dead on the scene. None of the victims in this vehicle wore seatbelts. The driver of the second vehicle involved, Jeffrey Schuermann 49 of Ashland was not injured.

The accident occurred when the vehicle driven by Schuermann an F-150 crossed the centerline and struck the other vehicle head-on. Highway 22 was closed for almost three hours while the Missouri State Highway Patrol investigated the crash.

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