Two Tarkio women were taken to the hospital following a wreck in Atchison County Sunday, October 13, 2019. The accident occurred when 26-year-old Chelsea D. Count of Tarkio was driving a 2000 Dodge Caravan northbound on P Avenue, approximately 2.5 miles south of Fairfax, around 6:30 p.m. The vehicle slid off the east side of the road, struck an embankment and overturned onto the driver’s side, coming to rest facing north on P Ave. Samantha D. Driskell, 29, of Tarkio, who was a passenger in the vehicle, was taken by Atchison-Holt Ambulance to Mosaic Life Care in St. Joseph, Missouri, with serious injuries. Count, who suffered minor injuries, was taken by a private vehicle to Mosaic.

The vehicle was totaled and towed from the scene by Double M Towing of Rock Port. Missouri State Highway Patrol Trooper C.J. Blue investigated, with the assistance of Trooper V.P. Wiley, the Atchison County Sheriff’s Department and Atchison-Holt Ambulance Service.