UPDATE: Teen Critically Injured in One Vehicle Crash, Later Dies

Update:

The 17-year-old passenger critically injured in this incident died at the hospital on September 16. He has been identified as 17-year-old Jayvon Wilkes of the 4700 block of Begg, Northwoods, MO.


Original post on Sept. 8:

District 6 officers responded to a Motor Vehicle Crash in the 6500 block of Hall around 1:30 a.m. on September 8.

Preliminary investigation suggests that a white GMC Terrain was traveling north on Hall when the vehicle drove into a construction zone, passed the section of road closed off by cones.

The Terrain drove into a large hole where the road was being repaired.

The driver of the vehicle, a 25-year-old woman and a 29-year-old woman who was a passenger where both taken to the hospital and listed in stable condition.

A 17-year-old male passenger of the vehicle was taken to the hospital in critical/unstable condition.

Accident Reconstruction assumed the ongoing investigation due to the condition of the 17-year-old passenger.

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