Jul 24, 2025

2 hospitalized in St. Joe after truck overturns

Posted Jul 24, 2025 11:30 PM

BUCHANAN COUNTY —Two people were injured in an accident just after 10a.m. Thursday in Buchanan County.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol reported a 2016 Freightliner M2 driven by a 32-year-old Aurora, Colorado man was northbound on Interstate 29 in the city of St. Joseph.

The truck traveled off the east side of the road. The driver overcorrected. The truck traveled off the west side of the road, returned to the road, overturned and struck the cable barrier.

Buchanan County EMS transported the driver and a 22-year-old passenger to Mosaic Life Care. Both were. properly restrained, according to the MSHP. The Patrol no longer releases names of accident victims.