DEKALB, MO. (THECOUNT) — Cherri Edwards, of Troy, Kansas, has been identified as the woman killed in an accident involving a tractor-trailer Monday morning.
Edwards, 51, was traveling west in a Chevrolet Impala on Route P near Clarksdale around 11:15 a.m. when the fatal crash occurred.
A tractor-trailer was traveling northbound on MO-31 when the Impala, for unknown reasons, entered onto MO-31 without yielding.
Edwards’ vehicle was broadsided by the tractor-trailer.
She was pronounced dead at the scene of blunt force trauma injuries consistent with th eviolent crash.
The driver of the tractor-trailer was not hurt. source
No one was cited in the crash.
The investigation is ongoing.
Anyone with possible information on the wreck should contact police at 911.
Clarksdale is a city in DeKalb County, Missouri, United States, located along the Little Third Fork of the Platte River. The population was 271 at the 2010 census. It is part of the St. Joseph, MO–KS Metropolitan Statistical Area, according to Wikipedia.
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