CLINTON COUNTY — A Missouri man was injured in an accident just before 6a.m. Thursday in Clinton County.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol reported a 2019 Freightliner semi driven by John A. Wilson, 63, Independence, was southbound on Interstate 35 three miles south of Lathrop.
The driver fell asleep. The semi traveled off the road, across the median into the northbound lanes, back into the median, struck a bridge abutment, traveled down an embankment, crossed a road, struck another embankment and came to rese in the median.
Tri-County ambulance transported Wilson to Liberty Hospital. He was not wearing a seat belt, according to the MSHP.