By Associated Press - Thursday, March 5, 2020

KENNETT, Mo. (AP) - Authorities say three people have died in a crash in the Bootheel region of far southeast Missouri.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol says the crash happened just before 6 p.m. Wednesday when 52-year-old Nelson Mayberry’s car struck another car in the side before colliding with a pickup truck at U.S. 412 and Missouri 25 in Kennett.

The crash killed Mayberry, along with two people in the car he hit. The patrol identified them as 80-year-old Dorothy Brewer and 69-year-old Carolyn Taylor, of Portageville.



There were no reports of injuries in the pickup truck.

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