Three Joplin residents suffer serious injuries in crash on I-44 near Mount Vernon

Three Joplin residents were injured in a one-vehicle accident 12:42 p.m. today on I-44 three miles west of Mount Vernon.

According to the Highway Patrol report, an eastbound 2017 Ram 1500 driven by Dustin L. Guthrie, 45, Joplin, drove off the left side of the roadway into the median. The vehicle went down an embankment into a creek bed.

A passenger, Ashley E. Wise, 41, Joplin, was taken by helicopter to Mercy Springfield. Guthrie was also taken to Mercy, both with serious injuries.

Another passenger, a 16-year-old Joplin girl, was treated for serious injuries at Cox South, Springfield.