Three teenagers were hospitalized following a Saturday night crash in Grundy County.
According to the Missouri Highway Patrol Nineteen-year-old Derrick L. Knifong of Meadvile was driving a 1999 Oldsmobile on Route E, six miles north of Laredo in Grundy County on Saturday evening.
The vehicle approached a right hand curve and Knifong lost control of the vehicle. It went into a broad slide, went off the left side of the road and struck a corner post. The vehicle came to rest off the west side of the road facing west.
Knifong and passenger Trevor H. Corzette, age 18 of Meadville and William G. Devaul age 17 of Meadville were transported to Wright Memorial Hospital in Trenton.
Corzette was later transferred to St. Luke’s Hospital in Kansas City. They were not wearing seat belts.