FRANKLIN COUNTY, Mo. – A Catawissa man died Saturday afternoon after losing control of his pickup truck along a rural Franklin County roadway.
According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol’s crash report, the crash happened just after 4:45 p.m. on Finney Road, just west of Route HH.
The highway patrol said a 2003 Ford F350 was traveling east on Finney Road when the driver was going too fast for the curve in the roadway and failed to keep the truck on the road.
The truck went off the right side of Route HH and overturned. The driver was ejected from the truck and pronounced dead at the scene at 5:05 p.m. He was 40.
A 23-year-old passenger in the truck suffered only minor injuries.
The crash report said the 23-year-old was wearing a seat belt at the time of the crash; the 40-year-old did not have his seat belt on.