A Missouri teenager was seriously injured in a New Year’s morning crash in Jackson County.

According to the Missouri Highway Patrol nineteen-year-old Jacob L. Ellis of Lee’s Summit was driving a 2004 Chevy Suburban west on US 50, west of F Highway just before 5 a.m.

The vehicle traveled off the right side of the road and struck an embankment, went airborne and overturned multiple times striking a fence and coming to rest. Ellis was transported to Centerpoint.  He was not wearing a seat belt.