HOLCOMB, Mo. -- Two Bernie residents sustained serious injuries and were airlifted for treatment following a Saturday afternoon wreck north of Holcomb, and one of those injured faces several criminal charges including felony vehicular assault.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol says Charles D. Cupp, 49, was eastbound on a 2003 Yamaha motorcycle on Rt. Z, three miles east of Bernie, when he failed to negotiate a curve, ran off the roadway and overturned. He and his passenger, Charmane G. Reyes, 47, were ejected from the bike.
Cupp was airlifted to a Memphis, Tenn., hospital. Reyes was flown to St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau.
Cupp was charged shortly following the wreck with felony vehicular second degree assault, DWI, driving while revoked, careless and imprudent driving involving an accident, failure to register a motor vehicle and for not having insurance.
In another wreck just before midnight Saturday night, two more Bernie residents were also seriously hurt in a wreck on Highway 25, three miles north of Holcomb.
The patrol states Rebeca S. Mead, 29, was driving a 2003 Pontiac northbound when she ran off the right side of the roadway and overturned. Both Mead and her passenger, 14-year-old Christopher J. Lawson, were ejected from the vehicle. Both were flown by Air Evac to St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau.
The patrol states neither were wearing seat belts at the time of the wreck.