Two Ozark County residents, including 6-year-old boy, injured in Howell County crash, driver facing charges

Two Ozark County residents, including a six-year-old boy, were injured in a single-vehicle accident in Howell County Wednesday afternoon and the driver is facing multiple charges. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol (MSHP), the driver, identified as 27-year-old Colleen Missel of Isabella on the MSHP’s online arrests website, was airlifted to Cox South Medical Center in Springfield with serious injuries. Her six-year-old male passenger was taken by ambulance to Ozarks Health in West Plains by ambulance with moderate injuries.

According to the MSHP crash report, the accident happened when Missel’s vehicle failed to negotiate a left hand curve, ran off the right side of the roadway, struck an embankment and became airborne. When the vehicle impacted the ground, it overturned.

The crash happened at 3:40 Wednesday afternoon on U.S. Highway 160, five miles south of West Plains.

Missel is facing felony charges of driving while intoxicated with injury and child endangerment. Misdemeanor charges include failure to drive on the right side of the roadway resulting in an accident, operating a vehicle without financial responsibility (no insurance), and driver failure to secure child in booster seat or safety belt.

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