Fatal Accident in Wreck Near Pattonsburg

There was a fatal accident Friday evening on ice covered roadways north of Pattonsburg. The Missouri State Highway Patrol reports that a 2017 Freightliner driven by Nicholas Taylor (35) of Des Moines was southbound on I-35 at around 8:45 that evening when it traveled off the right side of the roadway and began to slide. It impacted an embankment and began to overturn. The vehicle came to rest west of southbound I-35 facing northwest. Taylor was not wearing a seat belt at the time of the accident.