(KLZA)-- A semi-truck driver from St. Joseph suffered serious injuries shortly before noon Monday when a front passenger tire blew and the truck went down an embankment and came to rest on the drivers side of the truck.
The Missouri Highway Patrol reports 44-year-old Joshua Asher was northbound on Interstate 29 about a mile south of Corning when the wreck occurred.
Asher was transported by the Atchison Holt EMS to Mosaic Hospital in St. Joseph. The truck was declared to be totaled. Asher was wearing a safety device at the time of the wreck.
The Holt County Sheriff's Office assisted at the scene of the wreck.
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