Sunday crash
Late night crashCrawford County Rescue Squad members check out the wreckage of a 2003 Mercury Grand Marquis that flipped and crashed into a muddy field on County Road 450N, about a mile west of Hardinville about 2:30 a.m. Sunday. According to the Crawford County Sheriff's Department, Joseph Griggs, 41, rural Robinson, was eastbound when he ran off the road and traveled 142 feet before hitting a culvert and becoming airborne. The car crashed landed in the ditch 186 feet away, flipped and landed upside down another 25 feet farther east. Griggs, whose seat belt had to be cut off by Rescue, was taken to the hospital for treatment by United Life Care Ambulance. Oblong firefighters were also on the scene. Randy Harrison | Daily News
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