Morgan County Man Injured, Charged In Crash

A 41-year-old Versailles man was airlifted to the University of Missouri Hospital in Columbia following a single-vehicle crash at 1:03 this morning on Route W in Morgan County. The Missouri Highway Patrol reports that a pickup driven by Jason E. Shifflett ran off the left side of the road, where Shifflett overcorrected and ran off the right side of the road, overturning several times, ejecting him from the truck and hitting a tree. Shifflett was not wearing a safety device and is facing charges of driving while intoxicated.