KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Interstate 670 eastbound was closed for nearly five hours Tuesday morning because of a collision and vehicle fires that left seven people injured.
The Kansas City, Missouri, Police Department reports a stolen vehicle, a concrete truck, a box truck and two other vehicles were involved in the crash at around 5:45 a.m.
A stolen Hyundai attempted to take the southbound Interstate 35 entrance ramp from Broadway Boulevard when it struck both a Kenworth box truck and a Geiger concrete truck on the ramp, per a KCMO Police Department spokesperson.
The concrete truck went off the ramp, down an embankment and struck a tree. The concrete truck continued over a guardrail and hit a westbound Honda Civic on I-670, and hit an eastbound Dodge Durango after continuing through the concrete median separating east and westbound lanes of I-670.
The Dodge Durango and the the concrete truck veered off the roadway and hit a guardrail, and both vehicles caught on fire.
Seven people were injured in the crash, per officials. The driver of the Kenworth box truck did not complain of any injuries.
The driver of the concrete truck was transported to an area hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries. The driver of the Honda Civic and the driver and four occupants of the Dodge Durango were transported to an area hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
The ramps from I-29 southbound to I-670 westbound and the I-70 and I-670 split were closed while investigators were on the scene, per KCPD.
At this time, only the eastbound lanes of I-670 remain closed for clean-up purposes.
The driver of the stolen car fled the scene on foot and remains at-large.
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