(KNZA)--A St. Joseph, Missouri woman was killed early Sunday morning after she was run over by a semi tractor-trailer on I-29 in Buchanan County.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol reports the woman was laying in the southbound lane of I-29 when the semi, driven by 50-year-old Papillion, Nebraska man, ran over her shortly before 3:00, just south of the Frederick Avenue exit.

The woman was pronounced dead at the scene.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol no longer releases the names of accident victims.