A 45-year-old Poplar Bluff man was killed Saturday afternoon in a two-vehicle accident at the intersection of U.S. Highway 67 and Highway C, southwest of Poplar Bluff.
According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, Clarence P. Sarabia, 45, of Poplar Bluff was operating a 2006 Ford Escape eastbound at 2:25 p.m. Saturday when it failed to yield and pulled into the path of a northbound 2019 Volvo tractor-trailer operated by Rashad S. Karim, 38, of Abilene, Texas.
Sarabia was pronounced dead at the scene at 2:45 p.m. by Butler County Coroner Jim Akers and his body was transported to the Butler County morgue. He is the 48th fatality in Troop E this year.