JASPER COUNTY, Mo. — Thursday afternoon at 12:48 p.m. reports of a tractor trailer overturned near 27.6 mile marker I-44 alerted Jasper County E911.
Sarcoxie Rural Fire, Carthage Fire Dept, Jasper County Sheriff’s Deputies responded. MoDOT Emergency Response and Missouri State Highway Patrol were notified.
On scene Missouri State Highway Patrol Tpr T.C. Smith tells us a sleepy driver could be to blame.
The tractor trailer was traveling eastbound, witnesses tell Tpr Smith it drifted to the median and then quickly to the right, overturning and losing its load of sheet metal across both eastbound lanes.
The lone male driver was transported to a Joplin hospital suffering light scrapes and bruises, non-life-threatening injuries.
M&M Wrecker were summoned to upright the tractor trailer and remove the sheet metal debris. Traffic was disrupted all afternoon in the eastbound lanes.
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