Weekend Traffic Accidents in Lakes Region

Monday, August 7, 2023 at 7:49 AM

By Scott McCaulley @smcckc

Branson Police, Firefighters, and Taney County Ambulance work a traffic crash on Fall Creek Road Saturday morning. (Photo by Scott McCaulley)

Emergency personnel around the region were kept busy this weekend with over a half dozen traffic crashes.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol worked many of those crashes which mostly resulted in moderate injuries. One serious injury accident did occur Saturday morning at the Highway 160/176 and F Intersection that sent a man, 64-year-old Freddie Warren of Merriam Woods, to Cox South Hospital in Springfield with serious injuries.

Two crashes occurred on Fall Creek Road, one worked by MSHP involving a motorcycle Sunday afternoon and the other worked by Branson Police near the Cooper Creek Treatment Plant. No injury details have been released by Branson PD on that crash but traffic going to the Cooper Creek Plant for storm debris drop-off had to be routed to enter from the west side of the plant for a time during the accident clean-up.

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