Bootheel man injured in wreck

BERNIE - An Elsinore man sustained moderate injuries in an accident that occurred in Stoddard County.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol reports 26-year-old Brian Asher was traveling east on Highway U, two miles west of Bernie at 2:57 p.m. Monday when the freightliner he was driving traveled off the right shoulder and returned to the roadway. The driver over corrected and traveled off the left shoulder into a ditch.

He was taken to Three Rivers North Campus.