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Four central Missouri residents are dead after their car went off the side of the highway, struck a ditch and tree and became engulfed in flames.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol says 25-year-old Dmitriy Banakh was driving a 2007 Audi when his car went off the left side of Route B in Pettis County at 6:29 a.m. Sunday and crashed.
Banakh and his passengers - 19-year-old Angelika Franchuk, 16-year-old Anna Morgunenko and 20-year-old Daniel Morgunenko - were pronounced dead at the scene.
Their deaths put Missouri's highway fatality rate so far this year at 19.
A 67-year-old man and his 43-year-old wife died Thursday night when they were stopped on 65 Highway in Sedalia and another car rammed into them.
Eldon Coleman, 67, was stopped on the highway at about 10:20 p.m., facing eastbound because of a prior crash. Neither he nor his wife, Melissa Coleman, 43, were wearing a seatbelt when the 63-year-old driver, heading southbound crashed into them.
Dale Carmichael, 63, of Booneville was wearing his seatbelt and survived the collision.
Both Eldon and Melissa Coleman were pronounced dead at the scene.