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Kan. teen hospitalized after truck overturns in Missouri

UTICA, Mo. – Two teens were injured in an accident just after 2a.m. on Sunday in Livingston County.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol reported a 2005 Ford Ranger driven by Brianna M. Cairns, 16, Chillicothe, Mo., was eastbound on U.S. 36 one mile east of Utica. The vehicle traveled off the north side of the road into the median and overturned.

Cairns and a passenger Kaitlyn D. Plumb, 16, Eudora, Kan., were transported to Hedrick Medical Center. Life-flight then transferred Cairns to Liberty Hospital.

They were properly restrained at the time of the accident, according to the MSHP.

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