Gasconade County Republican

According to the Gasconade County Sheriff’s Department, the driver of this 1997 Chevrolet Monte Carlo, identified as Brandon Glenn, 19, of Owensville, told his parents the car had broken down and was parked along Shockley Road, about 7 miles northwest of town.

A landowner near the New Woollam community discovered the car upside down in the creek just north of the Shockley Road slab at 1:25 a.m. Saturday. A volunteer fireman and an Owensville ambulance staff member arrived on the scene minutes later and reported no one was around the vehicle but its lights were still on and the engine compartment was still warm. A search of the area was conducted but no one was located. When E-911 dispatchers reached the car’s owner by telephone, authorities were told the owner’s son had arrived home and had told them the car had broken down and was parked along the road. Triple L Towing removed the car from the creek bed.

The GCSD report noted the driver failed to negotiate a right-hand curve heading toward the slab, drove off the left side of the road, and overturned into the creek bed. Firemen were called out to the scene initially to help with a search of the creek bed for potential crash victims.