Duty Death: Carl Cosper - [Barry County]
End of Service: 07/04/2017
By Jeff Lehr
The Joplin Globe
CASSVILLE, Mo. — A Barry County deputy has died from injuries sustained when his vehicle struck a school bus at 10:49 a.m. today on Missouri Highway 37, a half-mile south of Washburn, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol.
Deputy Carl T. Cosper, 56, of Pineville, was taken to Mercy Hospital Cassville following the accident, the state patrol said. He was pronounced dead there at 12:09 p.m.
Cosper was southbound on the highway when the driver of a Washburn School District bus, which had no children on board, attempted to make a left turn on to the highway and failed to yield the right of way to the deputy’s vehicle, the patrol said. The bus driver, William D. Reeves, 60, of Seligman, escaped injury.
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