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May 23—MOUNT VERNON, Mo. — A truck driver from Georgia was ordered bound over for trial Thursday on a manslaughter charge in connection with a 10-vehicle accident May 12 on Interstate 44 that ...
The Amazon driver swerved into the left side of the road, crashed through a cable barrier at the interstate’s median and drove into oncoming traffic on Interstate 44, hitting and killing the 45 ...
Westbound I-44 traffic is being redirected to the Highway 249 interchange. Traffic has been backed up for more than 2 miles, police said, and the closure is expected to take several hours more.
I-44 approached by US 71 (now part of I-49) just south of Joplin. I-44 enters Missouri in Newton County at the eastern terminus of the Will Rogers Turnpike, 200 yards (180 m) south of the Kansas state line. The first interchange in Missouri is the eastern terminus of both U.S. Route 166 (US 166) and US 400.
I-44 was originally signed in 1958 as an Interstate designation of the Turner Turnpike linking Oklahoma City and Tulsa and the Will Rogers Turnpike linking Tulsa and the Missouri state line southwest of Joplin, along with the US 66 bypass in Tulsa that linked that city with the two turnpikes and the continued four-lane highway from the Missouri ...
According to a lawsuit filed by the widow of the truck driver, standards and regulations from AREMA, AASHTO, and the State of Missouri require a more gradual approach so that the surface of the roadway is nearly the same level as the rail (±3–6 in (76–152 mm) above top of rail) at a point 30 ft (9.1 m) from the outermost rail.
Jul. 9—The driver of a semitruck was killed at 9:50 a.m. Tuesday when his eastbound rig left the Interstate 44 roadway in Joplin, struck some median cables and rolled over. The crash at the 13 ...
According to the accident report, the suspect driving the Kia was killed in the crash. Neither the Fremont County or Missouri State Highway Patrol identified the victims in the accident.