The Missouri State Highway Patrol says three people died during the Christmas holiday travel period, which ended just before midnight on Wednesday.
All three deaths were from one crash that happened Christmas Eve in St. Francois County. A 28-year-old woman and two boys, ages six and four, died after the car they were in left the road and struck a tree east of Farmington. The Highway Patrol no longer releases the identities of traffic victims.
During this year’s shorter 30-hour holiday period, state troopers investigated 65 traffic crashes and made 17 arrests for driving while intoxicated. Three people died during last year’s Christmas enforcement period, which lasted 78 hours because it fell on a weekend.
Meanwhile, a 37-year-old man from southwest Missouri is dead following a fatal DWI crash in the town of Fidelity east of Joplin. It happened Tuesday afternoon before the start of the Christmas travel holiday period.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol said a 43-year-old woman from Oklahoma was attempting to pass another car and hit the male driver head-on and killed him. The woman suffered serious injuries and was taken to a local hospital but was also arrested and charged with felony DWI death of another. A third person crashed while trying to avoid the wreck but was not injured.
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