NEWTON COUNTY, Mo. – A semi loses control on a slick highway and crashes head-on with another semi.
Monday evening, around 6:10 p.m., the Missouri State Highway Patrol responded to a crash on I-49, about one mile south of Neosho.
According to the crash report, a Freightliner semi was going north when it lost control on the slick road and went across the median. The freightliner hit another semi head-on.
The driver of the southbound semi, Shane Morgan, 33 of Ozark, suffered serious injuries. Emergency personnel took Morgan to Mercy Hospital in Joplin.
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