Neosho residents, including four-year-old, injured in head-on collision on 59

Two Neosho residents were injured in a two-vehicle crash 3:55 p.m. today on MO 59, two miles northeast of Neosho.

According to the Highway Patrol report, a 2006 Kia Optima driven by Melissa R. Martin, 45, Neosho, made a left turn into the path of a 2000 Ford Explorer driven by Samuel J. Thornburg, 24, Aurora, and the two vehicles struck head on.

Martin and her four-year-old granddaughter were treated for minor injuries at Freeman West Hospital, Joplin.