A Jefferson City woman dies in a Highway 50 crash.
Troopers say Mlinda Hammond tried to drive across Highway 50 on Route U west of the capital near Centertown at about 8 a.m. Tuesday. She crashed into a Jeep driving on the highway.
Hammond is dead. She was 46. Her passenger, 24-year-old Brittany Summers of Jefferson City, was seriously hurt. The driver of the Jeep has serious injuries too, 57-year-old Tammy Meisenheimer of California.