Two men were seriously injured in a crash near Tarkio Saturday night.
According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, 41-year-old Daniel P. Beckman of Westboro, Missouri, was driving a Chevrolet Silverado north on US-59 in Atchison County, three miles north of Tarkio at 8:30 p.m. Saturday. The vehicle went off the east side of the road, hit a utility pole and ran through part of a cornfield. The vehicle then went up an embankment and overturned while airborne. The vehicle landed on its wheels off the east side of US-59 at the bottom of an embankment in a creek bed.
Beckman and a passenger, 22-year-old Trev M. Martin, also of Westboro, were transported to Community Hospital-Fairfax and then to the University of Nebraska Hospital in Lincoln for treatment of serious injuries.
According to the crash report, neither occupant was wearing a seatbelt.