2 seriously injured in Holt County crash

HOLT COUNTY, Mo. (KQTV) -- A Country Club, Missouri, man and a Falls City, Nebraska, man are seriously injured and a Country Club, Missouri, man is moderately injured after a two-vehicle crash in Holt County Tuesday.

The crash occurred around 2:06 p.m. on U.S. 159, two miles east of Big Lake, Missouri.

A 61-year-old man from Falls City was driving a 2018 Ford Fusion southbound on U.S. 159.

The 71-year-old female driver from Country Club was driving a 2015 Buick LaCrosse with a 72-year-old male passenger and was northbound on U.S. 159.

According to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report, the driver of the Ford Fusion stated he was looking at his phone and crossed the center of the roadway.

Both vehicles swerved to avoid each other. The Ford's front passenger-side bumper struck the front passenger-side bumper of the Buick.

The Ford rotated clockwise, skidded off the south side of the roadway and came to rest on its wheels facing south, partially blocking the northbound lane of U.S. 159 and partially on the shoulder.

The Buick rotated clockwise and came to rest on its wheels facing west off the north side of the roadway.

MSHP said U.S. 150 at the crash location is a north/south roadway that travels east/west.

Both the driver and the passenger of the Buick were wearing seatbelts and were transported by Atchison-Holt Ambulance to Mosaic Life Care in St. Joseph.

According to the crash report, it is unknown whether the driver of the Ford was wearing a seatbelt and he was transported by private vehicle to Community Medical Center in Falls City, Nebraska.