BLUE SPRINGS, MO – An accident in Blue Springs early Monday morning left a truck driver dead, according to KMBC.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol responded to the scene on Interstate 70 at Woods Chapel Road at about 4:40 a.m. The MSHP said the driver of a semi-truck went off the roadway while traveling in the westbound lanes of the interstate.
The truck overturned and caught fire, and the driver was killed.
All westbound traffic was diverted onto Woods Chapel Road for hours as crews from the Kansas City, Missouri Fire Department and other first responders cleared the site.
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