Police pursuit on Missouri-Iowa border on I-29 ends with death of Kearney teens

A wrong-way crash on Interstate 29 near the Iowa state line in northern Missouri early Sunday killed two Kearney teenagers and injured another. The crash happened just before 7:30 a.m. when a man involved in a multi-state police chase drove the wrong way on I-29 with an unbuckled 1-year-old in the passenger seat. The chase ended near the Iowa-Missouri border when the suspect’s vehicle collided head-on with a Ford Focus carrying three 18-year-olds from Kearney.

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