What We Know: A truck driver from Bradleyville has died following a crash south of Sparta.
What It Means: The Missouri State Highway Patrol says the 41-year-old man was driving a tractor-trailer on Highway 125 early Thursday evening when the truck overturned and left the road.
Troopers say the driver wasn’t wearing a seatbelt and was partially thrown from the truck.
Highway 125 was closed for nearly five hours while emergency crews worked at the scene.
(Photo provided by the Missouri State Highway Patrol)