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Nov. 18, 2021Mercer, Mo. |  By: Kaylin Byland

MO man dies in Mercer County wreck

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MERCER, Mo. - The Missouri State Highway Patrol says a 64-year-old Missouri man is dead after a crash in Mercer County.

The Patrol says Gary Sexton of Liberty was driving a 2013 Ford F-250 on  US Highway 65, one mile north of Mercer.

At 5:40 p.m. Monday, the Ford, which didn't have it's headlights on, crossed the center lane striking a motorhome, driven by 71-year-old Merlin Hall of State Center, Iowa.

The crash killed Sexton, who wasn't wearing a seatbelt, and seriously injured Hall, who was wearing his seatbelt. Hall was taken to Wayne County Iowa Hospital.