At least four people, including two children, were seriously injured after a collision in a work zone Wednesday, May 29 in Livingston County.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol says two vehicles were stopped as they were traveling southbound on U.S. Route 65 about three miles south of Chillicothe. According to the patrol, the collisions occurred around 9:10 a.m. when a minivan driven by a 51-year-old woman from Chillicothe struck the rear of a minivan from Kentucky, causing the van to spin into the rear of an SUV. A 26-year-old Chillicothe woman in the first minivan, along with a woman and two children in the second minivan, all sustained serious injuries and were initially taken to a nearby hospital before all were flown to Kansas City area hospitals. Another passenger in the Kentucky minivan suffered moderate injury and was treated in Chillicothe.

Traffic on U.S. 65 was delayed by two hours as a result of the crash, on the morning that the Missouri Department of Transportation began their project to resurface the roadway between Chillicothe and Carrollton. The patrol did not specify if any of the three drivers experienced injury.