Posted October 02, 2020 10:42am
(KLZA)-- A Thursday afternoon wreck on Interstate 9 sent an Odessa, Missouri man to the hospital in Fairfax.
The Missouri Highway Patrol reports that 29-year-old Tyler Corbin of Odessa was driving a 2012 Freightliner truck north on Interstate 29 just before 12:30 when he traveled off the east side of the road, struck the ground and overturning.
The truck came to rest on its top off the east side of the road. Corbin was not wearing a safety device at the time of the wreck. He was transported by the Atchison-Holt EMS to the Fairfax Community Hospital for the treatment of injuries described as moderate.
The truck was totaled.
The Atchison County Sheriff's Department, Rock Port Police and the Rock Port Fire and First Responders all assisted at the scene approximately two miles north of Rock Port.