Tamara Deroo Killed in a Crash on January 25, 2021 in Morgan County, Missouri

Tamara J Deroo of Versailles, MO was killed on Monday, January 25, 2021 at 4:10PM in Morgan County, Missouri. Deroo is a 22-year-old woman.

The crash happened here: MO 5 just north of Indigo Road.

In the crash, Deroo was a passenger. The police described the crash like this:

FATALITY CRASH - NEXT OF KIN NOTIFIED. CRASH OCCURRED AS VEHICLE 1 WAS TRAVELLING SOUTHBOUND AND VEHICLE 2 WAS TRAVELLING NORTHBOUND. VEHICLE 1 BEGAN TO PASS ANOTHER VEHICLE. VEHICLES 1 AND 2 SWERVED TO THE EAST SHOULDER AND STRUCK HEAD-ON. PASSENGER 2 WAS PRONOUNCED AT 1630 BY MORGAN COUNTY CORONER MARION JONES. THIS IS TROOP F FATALITY #1 JANUARY AND #1 FOR 2021. ASSISTED BY SGT. R. R. RYERSON (859), SGT. M. J. CODY (271), TPR. B. J. GEIER (599), TPR. A. R. ENDERLE (717), TPR. S. W. MAHANEY (921), AND CPL. R. V. MCCORMICK (1181) WITH CRASH TEAM 1

Injuries

Deroo's injuries were fatal. Deroo was taken to Body Taken To Kidwell Garber Funeral Home In Versailles.

Vehicle Damage

The police said the damage to the 2012 Cadillac Cts driven by Guillen was total. It was removed by Garber Diesel - Versailles. The damage to the 2006 Mercury Mariner driven by Decker was total. It was removed by Garber Diesel - Versailles.

How To Get the Highway Patrol Report

Sgt D R Barbour of the Missouri State Highway Patrol wrote up the report. The highway patrol assigned report number 210040324 to this crash. The highway patrol charges $6.90 for each certified report (certification required for court). The highway patrol is currently backlogged and they state on their website that you will have to wait 10 days and may have to wait an "extended period of time" beyond that for the report. Further, unless you qualify under the Federal Driver's Privacy Protection Act, the report you get will have important and necessary information such as photographs, social security numbers, driver license numbers, names, addresses and telephone numbers redacted (blacked out).

The information in this article came from the Missouri State Highway Patrol website.