Pedestrian Hit While Trying to Remove Animal from the Road in Miller County

A pedestrian accident on Missouri-52 at Pace Road in Miller County sends a Lake Ozark man with serious injuries to the hospital.

 The highway patrol says it happened early Saturday afternoon when the 69-year-old man was in the roadway trying to remove an animal. The man was hit by a pickup driven by a 30-year-old Barnett woman after she crested a hill and couldn’t stop in time.

 The man was flown to University Hospital. The woman was not injured.