Semi-truck driver taken to area hospital after rig flips, slides across I-70

INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (KCTV) – A St. Louis truck driver was taken to a Kansas City area hospital after his truck flipped during an early-morning crash and slid across I-70.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol indicates that around 1:20 a.m. on Thursday, April 3, emergency crews were called to the area of I-70 and I-470 in Independence with reports of a single-vehicle crash.

When first responders arrived, they said they found a 61-year-old St. Louis man had been driving a 2015 Freightliner semi-truck west on the interstate when, for an unknown reason, he traveled off the roadway…

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