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A Jefferson City man was injured Friday night while he was a passenger in a vehicle that ran off a city street and into a creek bed.
Jefferson City police report Evantie Essex, 18, received serious injuries. He was transported to a local hospital, then transferred to University Hospital in Columbia, where he was admitted in critical condition.
Police report the vehicle, a 2006 Dodge Durango, was traveling southbound in the 1000 block of South Country Club Drive around 8:43 p.m. when it left the right side of the roadway just north of Old Lohman Road, traveled down a small embankment and crossed a creek. The vehicle came to rest on the west side of the creek.
Essex was not wearing a seatbelt at the time of the crash, police said. The driver of the vehicle was unknown at the time of the initial report, but the investigation continues.
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