A 25-year-old man from Plato perished in a crash that occurred at 8:48 a.m. Monday on AW Highway a mile north of Evening Shade in Texas County, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol.
Tpr. N.B. Poynter, Troop G of the patrol, Willow Springs, reported the man was the driver of a northbound 2021 Dodge Ram 1500 pickup truck that ran off the right side of the road, became airborne and struck a tree.
Texas County Coroner Brent Honeycutt pronounced the man dead at 9:26 a.m. at the scene.
It is the third fatal crash this year in the nine-county Troop G area, compared to none in the same time frame last year.
Poynter was assisted at the scene by Cpl. T.L. Brown.
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