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Missouri Woman Injured In Cherokee County Crash

 

 A Missouri woman is seriously injured in a two-vehicle crash late Saturday night near Galena.

 

 60-year-old Fontella Smith of Carl Junction was a passenger in a vehicle that was struck by another driver who failed to yield at a stop sign. Smith was in a 2025 Lexus driven by 53-year-old William Smith, also of Carl Junction. The pair was traveling northbound on K-26 about 3 ½ miles south of Galena. A 2021 Honda Accord driven by 23-year-old Dylan Collins of Neosho, KS, was traveling eastbound on Old Highway 166 when he failed to stop at a stop sign and struck the Smith's vehicle.

 

Fontella Smith was taken to Freeman West Hospital in Joplin. No one else was injured in the accident.

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