A Mountain Home man has been charged with a felony count of driving while intoxicated after his two passengers were seriously injured in a one-vehicle accident northwest of Springfield early Tuesday evening. Thirty-year-old Tyler Sindle was also cited for careless and imprudent driving involving an accident after 21-year-old Dakota Rhodes and 19-year-old Tyler Fletcher, both of Humansville, Missouri, were transported to Citizens Memorial Hospital in Bolivar.
According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, Sindle, Rhodes and Fletcher were traveling on Seventh Road in Polk County. They were nearly a mile northwest of Humansville when the vehicle ran off roadway, and both passengers were ejected. Rhodes and Fletcher were reportedly not wearing their seat belts.
Sindle’s vehicle had moderate damage in the 5 p.m. accident.
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