CRAWFORD COUNTY, Mo. — The Missouri State Highway Patrol is investigating a crash in Crawford County Saturday that left a trooper seriously injured.
The crash happened shortly after 6 p.m. Saturday about four miles west of Sullivan on South Outer Road, which runs alongside Interstate 44.
According to MSHP, the crash occurred while the trooper, a 25-year-old man from Rolla, Missouri, was outside of his vehicle and on the roadside assisting a stranded motorist.
A 74-year-old man from Cuba, Missouri, was traveling westbound in a 2017 Dodge Ram 1500. He did not see the trooper and struck him, the report said.
The trooper was flown to a St. Louis hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. He was later released.
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