The driver of a trash truck is killed when his vehicle overturns in southwest Missouri.
Authorities in Jasper, MO, were called to the scene of a single vehicle accident yesterday afternoon around 1pm. When they arrived on the scene, emergency crews found a tractor-trailer trash hauler overturned alongside the roadway. The Missouri State Highway Patrol says the accident was caused when the truck left the roadway to the right, over corrected, then left the roadway to the left and overturned.
The driver of the truck, 56-year-old Kim Melvin of Joplin, suffered fatal injures in the crash. A passenger in the truck, 65-year-old Darrall Taylor of Webb City sustained serious injuries and was taken to Freeman West Hospital in Joplin for treatment.
