Thursday, April 8, 2021

Pierce City residents killed in I-44 head-on crash caused by wrong-way driver


Two Pierce City residents were killed in a two-vehicle accident 5:23 a.m. Wednesday on I-44, a half mile east of Mount Vernon.

According to the Highway Patrol report, a 2003 Ford Ranger driven by David H. Galer, 67, Pierce City, was traveling eastbound in the westbound lanes of I-44 and struck a 2017 International box truck driven by Shane L. Clark, 45, Ozark, head on.








Lawrence County Deputy Coroner Larry Eden pronounced Galer and a passenger in his vehicle, Joanne E. Merritt, 46, Pierce City, dead at the scene at 7 p.m.

The fatalities were the fifth and sixth in April and the 30th and 31st this year for Highway Patrol Troop D.

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