An area man was killed and three women were seriously injured when two pickup trucks collided Friday night in Howell County. Thirty-two-year-old Aaron Schlegel of Caulfield was pronounced dead at the scene. Thirty-year-old Amanda Sanders of Tecumseh and 61-year-old Carolyn Robertson and 64-year-old Carroll Gaddis of West Plains were transported by ambulance to Ozarks Healthcare in West Plains.
According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, Robertson was the driver of a truck on U.S. Highway 160, and Sanders and Gaddis were her passengers. They were nearly a mile west of South Fork when their truck crossed the center line and struck another truck, driven by Schlegel, head-on. Sanders was reportedly not wearing a seat belt.
Both trucks were totaled in the 9:19 p.m. accident.
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