Belle Woman Seriously Injured in Crash

(PEA RIDGE) A woman from Belle was injured Tuesday in a pickup truck accident in Washington County. The Missouri State Highway Patrol says the accident took place right at noon on Highway ‘N’, just west of Mine Road, south of Pea Ridge, when 33-year-old Latasha Lee was inattentive which caused the Ford F-150 she was driving to run off the road and strike a barbed wire fence. Lee was seriously injured and had to be flown to Mercy Hospital in St. Louis.