One person is dead and another seriously hurt in separate traffic crashes in Camden County.

The highway patrol says the fatal accident happened shortly before 10:00 Friday night when a Jeep driven at a high rate of speed began to skid as it approached a curve before leaving the roadway, striking two trees and overturned multiple times.

The driver, a 38-year-old woman from Linn Creek, was not wearing a seat belt and was ejected from the vehicle. She was pronounced dead on the scene.

The other accident happened earlier during the day, around 12:30, on north highway-7 near Tranquil Woods Road when the S-U-V driven by a 63-year-old man from Camdenton ran off the road and struck a traffic sign and a tree before overturning and ejecting the man who was not wearing a seat belt.

He was seriously hurt and taken to Lake Regional Hospital in Osage Beach.