A few traffic crashes marked the Memorial Day weekend on the region’s highways.

A count of accidents worked by the Missouri State Highway Patrol was unavailable Monday night. A counting period for the holiday weekend the patrol uses in the calculation was not due to expire until midnight.

The patrol’s Troop H was involved in a program that provided maximum manpower during the weekend. The “10-mile trooper project” was designed to assign a trooper every 10 miles on Interstate 29, a highway specifically designated for the effort.

One fatality was reported in Northwest Missouri before the weekend ended. Angela D. Brown, 34, of Trenton, was killed in rural Grundy County Saturday night when she swerved the Jeep she was driving to avoid a deer. Her daughter, 13-year-old Corda L. Brown, was taken to Wright Memorial Hospital in Trenton for treatment of minor injuries.

An Omaha, Neb., man received moderate injuries Monday night when he lost control of a motorcycle on U.S. Highway 36 east of St. Joseph, the patrol said.

Stephen D. Turner, 54, was taken to Heartland Regional Medical Center for treatment, according to a report.

The wreck occurred at 6:18 p.m., three miles east of St. Joseph in the westbound lanes of U.S. Highway 36. Mr. Turner lost control of the 1986 Suzuki motorcycle, which traveled off the left side of the highway and entered the median. The motorcycle overturned, ejecting Mr. Turner — who was wearing a helmet. The motorcycle landed in the median.

Ray Scherer can be reached

at rscherer@npgco.com.