CHILLICOTHE, Mo. (AP) - Authorities say two people have been killed in a northwest Missouri crash.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol says the crash happened Thursday night when a car crossed the center line on U.S. 65 and struck a pickup truck head-on 4 miles (6 kilometers) south of Chillicothe.
The patrol says the car’s driver, 49-year-old Orville Cooper, of Bosworth, died at the scene. The driver of the truck, 23-year-old Nicholas Lawson, of Chillicothe, was pronounced dead at a hospital.
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