Webb City man killed in crash on I-49 near Neosho

A Webb City man was killed in a one-vehicle accident 9:17 a.m. today on I-49, two miles north of Neosho.

According to the Highway Patrol report, a 1999 Ford F-150 driven by Gregory S. Lumpkins, 47, Webb City, traveled off the left side of the ramp. Lumpkins overcorrected and the vehicle went off the right side of the roadway and overturned.







Newton County Deputy Coroner B. Artherton pronounced Lumpkins dead at the scene.

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