A 37-year-old Kirksville woman was moderately injured Thursday evening when the trash truck she was driving ran off Route 156 and overturned east of La Plata.
The crash happened 1 mile east of La Plata at 5:23 p.m., according to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report.
The woman was driving a 2018 Freightliner trash truck east when it ran off the right side of the roadway and overturned, the patrol reported.
She was taken by private vehicle to Northeast Regional Medical Center, according to the report. The patrol reported that she was using a safety device.
The truck was totaled, the report says. Lakeside Towing removed it from the scene.
Trooper Tague of Troop B investigated. Trooper Willock of the patrol, the La Plata Police Department, the Macon County Sheriff's Office, and Macon County Fire and Rescue assisted, according to the report.
The patrol's public online report does not name the driver. It lists her age, gender, hometown, and role in the crash. The patrol stopped posting names on its online crash reports in November 2024, and Missouri press and broadcast groups sued the agency Oct. 16 in Cole County to restore them, as the Macon Chronicle reported Oct. 20.
The patrol's incident number for the crash is 260479256.