Man dies after accident

Thursday, May 18, 2006

BENTON -- A Poplar Bluff man died Wednesday three days after being seriously injured in a single-car accident. Daniel F. Poe, 58, of Poplar Bluff was pronounced dead at 4:20 a.m. Wednesday at St. Francis Medical Center in Cape Girardeau, according to Missouri State Highway Patrol. The accident occurred as Poe was traveling at 7:09 p.m. Sunday on Interstate 55, one mile north of Benton, when he fell asleep at the wheel. The vehicle went into the median and overturned.

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