POPLAR BLUFF, Mo. (WSIL) -- One person is dead after a crash involving an electric scooter in Butler County on Friday.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol said the crash happened on September 19, at 10:45 p.m., along US 67, roughly two miles north of Poplar Bluff.

State police said a 31-year-old man from Poplar Bluff was driving an electric scooter going north when a 2011 Chevrolet Equinox, driven by a 47-year-old female from Greenville, hit the rear part of the scooter.

The Poplar Bluff man was pronounced dead at the scene.

State police said this is the 44th death relating to a traffic crash in 2025 for the southeast Missouri area.

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