A single-vehicle accident early this (Thursday) morning in northwest Missouri, resulted in a southwest Iowa man being transported to a hospital in Maryville, MO. The Missouri State Patrol reports 23-year old Spencer Zarek, of Stanton, was traveling north on Highway 71 at around 12:15-a.m., when his 2007 Chevy Malibu left the road to the east, about three-miles south of Maryville. The car impacted an embankment and went airborne and overturned before coming to rest on its wheels. Zarek was taken by a private vehicle to SSM Health St. Francis Hospital in Maryville for treatment of what were said to be minor injuries. The car was totaled in the crash.

The Missouri State Patrol was assisted by the Nodaway County Sheriff’s Office and Maryville Public Safety.