One person was killed and another injured in a one-vehicle accident 1:05 p.m. Thursday on Route H, five miles south of Jasper.
According to the Highway Patrol report, a 1999 Dodge 1500 driven by Mark R. Thompson, 63, Weir, Kansas, traveled off the left side of the roadway, struck an embankment and overturned, ejecting both occupants.
Jasper County Deputy Coroner Richard Rector pronounced a passenger, Deborah L. Thompson, 66, Weir, dead at the scene at 1:26 p.m.
Thompson was airlifted to Mercy Hospital, Springfield, with serious injuries.
The fatality was the 112th this year for Highway Patrol Troop D.
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