Ice-covered roads cause accident killing Monett pedestrian

A Monett woman was killed in a two-vehicle accident 3:10 p.m. Monday on Highway C, five and a half miles east of Purdy.

According to the Highway Patrol report, Joe W. DeBoer, 43, Wheaton, lost control of the 2006 Chevrolet Colorado he was driving on an ice-covered roadway and struck Bonnie S. Hawser, 59, Monett, who was standing by a 1988 Ford pickup that had been in an earlier crash.







Barry County Deputy Coroner Gary Swearingen pronounced Hawser dead at the scene.

The fatality was the 110th this year for Highway Patrol Troop D.