PRINCETON- Three teenagers were injured in an accident just before 8 a.m. on New Year’s Day in Mercer County.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol reported a 2007 Chevy passenger vehicle driven by Alexis C. Knouse, 18, Wheeling, was traveling too fast around the curve on Finch Avenue two miles northeast of Princeton.

The vehicle traveled off the right side of the road. The driver overcorrected and the vehicle went off the road and hit a tree.

Knouse and passengers Layla A. Bundy, 15, Chillicothe, and Sara A. Knouse, 15, Wheeling, were transported to Wright Memorial Hospital in Trenton.

The MSHP reported they were not wearing seat belts.