A Sedalia woman was recently sentenced to spend a decade in state prison after she pled guilty to a DWI felony charge after a head-on traffic crash killed an area woman in Pettis County on December 3, 2018.
According to a report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the crash occurred on U.S Highway 65, just south of Claycomb Road, as a northbound vehicle, driven by 43-year-old Delores Letourneau, reportedly began to travel in the southbound lanes and struck a vehicle head-on which was driven by 86-year-old George Argie, of Warsaw.
A passenger, 76-year-old Myrtle Argie, was pronounced decease at the scene by Assistant Coroner Todd Asbury. Letourneau and George Argie were transported by ambulance to Bothwell Hospital for treatment of minor injures.
Online court documents say Letourneau was charged with a Class B Felony for Driving While Intoxicated- Resulting in the Death of a Person.
During a court proceeding on May 20, 2019, Letourneau entered a plea of guilty, and the court accepted the plea and went with the state’s recommendation to serve 10 years.
Letourneau then was remanded into the custody of the Pettis County Sheriff’s Department for delivery to the Missouri Department of Corrections.