Laclede County fatality injured in a Monday afternoon accident
A Laclede County motorist was fatally injured and two others were seriously injured in a single-vehicle accident Monday afternoon at 2:19 on Native Drive, eight miles southwest of Lebanon.
The highway patrol says 33-year-old Casey E. Rader of Conway was killed when the 2001 Ford F250, driven by 38-year-old Casandra M. Sorrells of Conway, traveled off the roadway, struck a ditch, and overturned, ejecting all occupants. Rader was pronounced dead at the scene by the Laclede County Coroner. Sorrells was taken by ambulance for treatment of her serious injuries to Mercy Hospital in Springfield. A third person in the pickup truck, 50-year-old Kenneth R. Bohannon of Phillipsburg, was flown by Mercy Air to Missouri University Hospital in Columbia for treatment of his serious injuries. Rader’s death was Troop I’s second fatality in March and 5th for the year