Car overturns, driver is injured

HOWARDVILLE -- A Campbell man was seriously injured after the vehicle he was traveling in overturned early Monday.

According to Missouri State Highway Patrol, the accident occurred at 5:15 a.m. on U.S. Highway 62, two miles east of Howardville, when eastbound motorist Bennie L. Plunk, 63, failed to negotiate a curve, overcorrected, traveled off the road and overturned.

Plunk was air lifted for treatment to Saint Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau.