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2 killed in head-on tractor-trailer crash Friday on I-70 near Concordia, MO

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CONCORDIA, Mo. — The Missouri State Highway Patrol says two people died Friday afternoon in a head-on collision on eastbound Interstate 70 near Concordia, Missouri.

Emergency responders were dispatched to the scene of the crash around 2 p.m. Friday.

Troopers believe the driver of a tractor-trailer heading west on I-70 lost control, traveled through the median, and struck an eastbound tractor-trailer head-on.

Two people died in the crash.

The driver of the semi originally traveling westbound was identified by troopers as a 65-year-old Belton, South Carolina man. The driver of the second semi was identified as a 58-year-old West Minister, Colorado, man.