HOWARD COUNTY, MO. (THECOUNT) — Vicki Kwiatkowski Cooper, of St. Louis, Missouri, has been identified as the victim in a Thursday fatal vehicle crash in Howard County.
Cooper, 50, was killed in a single-vehicle crash in Bonne Femme Township early Thursday morning.
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According to reports, Cooper was operating a vehicle on Route O near CR-130 near Higbee, when for unknown reasons, the vehicle exited the roadway, entered a culvert and came into contact with a tree around 1 a.m. Thursday.
Cooper was pronounced dead of blunt force trauma injuries at the scene of the crash.
The cause of the crash remains under investigation.
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geo quick facts: Howard County is a county in the U.S. state of Missouri, with its southern border formed by the Missouri River. As of the 2010 census, the population was 10,144. Its county seat is Fayette. The county was organized January 23, 1816, and named for Benjamin Howard, the first Governor of the Missouri Territory – Wikipedia.