A fatal accident resulting from unsecured flying debris from a pick-up truck at 8:45 this morning stopped traffic for over five hours.
The police investigation revealed that a red international semi-truck pulling two trailers, was traveling eastbound on I-435. Just east of the 103rd Street exit, the semi was struck by debris flying out of the bed of a pickup truck and swerved right to avoid the debris.
The semi struck a gray Honda Civic that was traveling eastbound on I-435. The Honda struck the guardrail located on the south side of the interstate.
The semi continued eastbound, traveling off the roadway to the right, into a drainage ditch and striking a concrete noise abatement wall. Upon impact with the wall, the cab of the semi-truck immediately exploded, engulfing the cab and both trailers in fire. The driver of the semi-truck was pronounced deceased at the scene.
The driver of the Honda was uninjured.
The pickup truck continued eastbound on I-435.
Five of the six lanes of eastbound I-435 were completely closed to traffic for approximately five hours. Three lanes of eastbound I-435 are still closed as the semi-truck, trailers, and cargo are extricated from the scene.
This is fatality #49 compared to fatality #50 at this time last year.
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Unsecured debris flying off of trucks on the highway especially I-435 has become a critical epidemic in KCMO beginning of Covid-19 pandemic 2020 until this present day I myself on the way to work a week ago have experienced tree branches falling off of a truck trailer i was driving behind in 71 northbound and a pick up truck that had card board boxes and plastic flying all over the same highway weeks ago hitting the front of my car and windows its sad that someone lost their life today just trying to do his job driving a semi to deliver products and the person driving the pickup truck kept going like he just didnt see the accident he caused being careless my prayers and condolences to the semi truck driver and his family i hope he gets some justice for an accident costing him his life that never should have happened in the first place.