On Friday, November 9, a man from Independence died at one of Seymour’s top recreation and tourism venues.
According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol the accident happened at around 6.45 p.m.at the Southern Missouri Off-Road Ranch, located about five miles south of Seymour off Highway K. Anthony J. Fjeld, age 59, was helping to direct a driver when 57 year old Wayne L. Rasmussen was backing his 1977 Ford Bronco. When Rasmussen saw Fjeld standing in the way of his vehicle he tried to stop but pressed the accelerator rather than the brake and ran over Fjeld and then hit the Ford F 350 truck which Fjeld was directing.
Fjeld was pronounced dead shortly after 8 p.m. at Mercy Hospital in Springfield which is the 97th motor-vehicle fatality this year in the patrol’s Troop D region.
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