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The Crawford County, Missouri I-44 Tragedy: A Deep Dive into Crossover Rollover Liability and Victim Rights The impact was catastrophic. On Friday night, May 8, 2026, the eastbound lanes of Interstate 44 in Crawford County, Missouri, became the scene of a violent three-vehicle collision that claimed a life and left two others with serious, life-altering injuries. At mile marker 218, a 2022 Ram 2500 traveling westbound crossed the median, struck the cable barriers, and overturned directly into the path of oncoming traffic. For the victims in the 2006 Ford Taurus and the 2022 Toyota Highlander, there was no time to react. An overturned, heavy-duty truck in the middle of a high-speed interstate is a wall of steel that no passenger car is designed to survive. In an instant, a 64-year-old woman from St. James was gone, and two others were rushed to Mercy Hospital Creve Coeur with trauma that will take months or years to heal. At Attorney911, we’ve spent over 27 years dismantling the defenses of negligent drivers and the corporations that put them on the road. Ralph Manginello founded this firm to stand up to the biggest entities in the world, including our work in the $2.1 billion…