A car remained pinned underneath an 18-wheeler on Interstate 35 near the 20th street exit in Kansas City as emergency responders worked on extricating the occupants inside the trapped vehicle.  The southbound lanes of I-35 where closed for over an hour and traffic was diverted around the scene.  Responders report that a young child and two adults were injured in the truck crash.  Authorities continued to investigate the scene after the victims were transported to an area hospital.  Weather in the Kansas City area on the morning of the crash was wet. 

Serious truck crashes involve a large quantity of evidence that must be protected.  If a Kansas City truck crash lawyer does not immediately demand that evidence be preserved, a future claim for compensation may be diluted due to destroyed data which is critical to the claim.  A tractor-trailer has a black box known as an "electronic control module" (ECM) that stores data immediately following a hard brake or collision.  An immediate ECM download is critical in determining what the 18-wheeler did just prior to the collision.  Speed, location, direction of travel, throttle, gearing, and additional information is recorded and stored on a truck's ECM at the time of the impact.

If you are injured in a serious truck crash, you may able to obtain compensation by filing a Missouri truck crash injury claim.  If a truck driver is careless and causes a crash, both the driver and trucking company are legally liable to the injury victim.  Missouri law allows truck crash injury victims to seek compensation for pain & suffering and economic damages.