JACKSON COUNTY —One person died in an accident just before 9:30p.m. Monday in Jackson County.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol reported a 2011 Cadillac driven by Desiree C. Smith, 37, Blue Springs was westbound in the eastbound lanes of Interstate 70 just west of Adams Dairy Parkway.

The Cadillac struck a 2003 Ford passenger vehicle driven by Heather R. Blackman, 44, Blue Springs, head-on.

Blackman was pronounced dead at the scene. Jackson County EMS transported Smith and a passenger in the Ford Chloe D. Atkinson, 18, Blue Springs, to Centerpoint Medical Center. The occupants of the Ford were properly restrained at the time of the crash, according to the MSHP.