Early Morning Bates County Accident Injures 2 People

Around 5:30am this morning the Missouri State Highway Patrol along with Bates County EMS responded to a 1 vehicle accident on Northbound I-49 at mile marker 141.2. The accident occurred when the 2003 Chevrolet Impala driven by 44 year old Suleiman A. Hussein of Kansas City, Missouri was traveling Northbound on I-49 ran off the roadway and into the median, returning back to the roadway crossing into the Southbound Lanes of I-49 and overturned on its side. 

Two passengers in the vehicle 30 year old Johara M. Mohammud and Abdi Hassan 29 years old both of Kansas City, Missouri were taken by ambulance to Bates County Memorial Hospital with minor injuries. Due to road conditions the vehicle was left at the scene.