Sumner Newscow report — A Sumner County resident was seriously hurt in a two-vehicle accident that killed a Pittsburg State University student and seriously hurt four others Saturday morning in Barton County, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol.

Morgan Tracy, 20, of Argonia was listed as one of three passengers taken by ambulance to Freeman Hospital with serious injuries. She was in a car that killed Nicholas E. Chase, 22, of Olathe, Kan., who was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash at the junction of state highways 43 and 126, about 10 miles southwest of Lamar, the state patrol said. His body was taken to the Daniels Funeral Home in Lamar.

Chase was a passenger in an eastbound car driven by Caleb C. Neely, 23, of Dadeville, that failed to stop at a stop sign on 126 and collided with a northbound pickup truck driven by Crystal L. Carter, 30, of Lamar, the patrol said. Both vehicles left the roadway following the collision and the pickup truck overturned, the patrol said.

Carter and her passenger, Hiram C. Ruth, 32, of Lamar, sustained serious injuries and were flown by medical helicopter to Freeman Hospital West in Joplin, the patrol said. Two other passengers beside Tracy were identified in Neely’s car taken by ambulance to Freeman Hospital West with serious injuries. They were identified as Devin H. Walter, 23, of Topeka, Kan.; and Kaylene R. Wray, 20, of Pomona, Kan.