I-70 Sea Lion Transport Tractor-Trailer Crash Near Columbia, Boone County, Missouri: A 2015 Peterbilt 389 Semi Leaves the Roadway at 4:15 a.m. and Strikes the Median Barrier — Attorney911 Pursues the Interstate Carrier and the Booking Contractor Behind the Load, We Extract the ELD Hours-of-Service Logs and ECM Black-Box Data Before the Overwrite, Missouri’s Pure Comparative-Negligence Rule Means Seatbelt Non-Use Reduces But Never Bars Recovery, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, the Firm Has Recovered $2.5M+ in Truck-Crash Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911
What Happened on I-70 Near Columbia — and What It Means for the Passenger Who Was Hurt You are reading this because someone you care about was inside a 2015 Peterbilt 389 semi-truck on westbound Interstate 70 near mile marker 133 in Boone County, Missouri, when that truck left the left side of the roadway and hit a median barrier. She is 27 years old. She was taken to University Hospital — Columbia’s Level I trauma center — with what the Missouri State Highway Patrol called “moderate injuries.” The truck was hauling three sea lions to the Missouri State Fair in Sedalia. The headline grabbed attention because of the animals. But the headline is not your story. Your story is a hospital bed, medical bills arriving in a name that cannot pay them, and a phone that is about to ring with an insurance adjuster who sounds like a friend. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We are a trial firm that takes Missouri commercial truck accident cases, and we are writing this page for the person lying in that bed and the family sitting beside her. Ralph Manginello has spent 27 years in courtrooms, including federal court, and was a journalist before he was a lawyer — he knows how to find the story the official report left out. Lupe Peña spent years inside a national insurance-defense firm, in the rooms where adjusters and their software decided how to deny, delay, and devalue people exactly like…