The crash happened near Route B and Lorenzo Green Drive in Jefferson City.
According to a release from Jefferson City Police, a Toyota Tacoma and a Ford Escape were stopped in the left turn lane from southbound Route B and were ready to turn left on northbound Lorenzo Greene Drive. Jefferson City Police
A Chevrolet Trail Blazer was traveling southbound on Route B, while a dump truck was driving northbound on Route B, near the intersection of Lorenzo Green Drive.Â
The Toyota changed lanes and moved into the southbound lane, while crossing into the Chevrolet s path. The driver of the Chevrolet could not stop and crashed into the rear of the Toyota.Â
Editor’s note: This is the second of a two-part series on the way recent events are helping Americans come to terms with our checkered past.
Twenty-something years ago, I was chatting with a college professor at Prescott Park when the topic turned to American slavery. I noted, having recently interviewed historian Valerie Cunningham, that the first enslaved African in New Hampshire had arrived at this very spot in 1645.
Slavery is a Southern thing
“That can’t be true,” my scholarly companion replied, or something to that effect. He seemed offended by the very idea. “There was no slavery around here. That was a Southern thing,” he corrected.