Lewis Hale Killed in a Crash on January 14, 2022 in Iron County, Missouri

Lewis A Hale of Annapolis, MO was killed on Friday, January 14, 2022 at 2:22PM in Iron County, Missouri. Hale is a 89-year-old man.

The crash happened here: County Road 118, five miles north of annapolis.

In the crash, Hale was a driver. The police described the crash like this:

***FATAL CRASH*** NEXT OF KIN HAS BEEN NOTIFIED*** CRASH OCCURRED AS VEHICLE ONE TURNED INTO THE PATH OF VEHICLE TWO EJECTING THE DRIVER. DRIVER ONE PRONOUNCED AT THE SCENE BY IRON COUNTY CORONER TIM HARBISON AT 1533.TROOP E FATALITY NUMBER 1 FOR 2022

Injuries

Hale's injuries were fatal. Hale was taken by EMS to The Iron County Morgue.

Vehicle Damage

The police said the damage to the 2005 Mercury Mariner driven by James was total. It was removed by Towed By Forshee Towing. The damage to the 2014 Polaris Ranger driven by Hale was total. It was removed by Towed By Forshee Towing.

How To Get the Highway Patrol Report

Sgt A F Cheaney Assisted By Cpl T E Erpenbach and Major Crash Team Four Sgt J M Weadon of the Missouri State Highway Patrol wrote up the report. The highway patrol assigned report number 220022894 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.