Jul 01, 2025

2 adults dead, man and baby injured after Missouri head-oncrash

Posted Jul 01, 2025 10:15 AM

CHRISTIAN COUNTY—Two people died in an accident just before 9p.m. Monday in Christian County.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol reported a 2004 Ford F150 driven by a 40-year-old Webb City man was westbound on Melton Road just west of Mills Road in Highlandville.

The pickup crossed the center line and sturck a 2013 Honda Odyssey driven by a 45-year-old Highlandville woman head-on.

The driver and a 52-year-old passenger in the Honda were pronounced dead at the scene.  EMS transported the driver of the pickup and a baby boy in the Honda to Cox South in Springfield. All four were properly restrained, according to the MSHP. The Patrol no longer releases names of accident victims.