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83-year-old driver hospitalized after van overturns

NODAWAY COUNTY — One person was injured in an accident just after noon Friday in Nodaway County.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol reported a 1999 Pontiac Montana driven by Robert E. Perdew, Gravity, IA, was westbound on MO. 148 two miles south of Hopkins.

The vehicle traveled off the right shoulder and returned to the road. The driver lost control of the vehicle and it traveled off the right side of the road, struck a ditch and overturned.

Nodaway County EMS transported Perdew to St. Francis in Maryville. He was properly restrained at the time of the accident, according to the MSHP.

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