{"id":476936,"date":"2026-02-19T02:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T02:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/476936\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T02:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T02:02:09","slug":"police-investigate-fiery-crash-involving-2-semis-in-construction-zone-on-i-44-in-springfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/476936\/","title":{"rendered":"Police investigate fiery crash involving 2 semis in construction zone on I-44 in Springfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) &#8211; Police are investigating a fiery crash involving two semis on I-44 near U.S. 65 in a construction zone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">The crash happened around 6 p.m. on Wednesday. Investigators say a semi struck the median barrier in the westbound lane where the construction lane begins. The crash then sent the semi rolling onto its side. The semi hit the concrete barrier, striking an eastbound traveling semi. One of the semis caught fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">The two semi drivers suffered injuries. Police say no other vehicles were involved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">The crash shut down both lanes of westbound traffic and one lane of eastbound traffic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">To report a correction or typo, please email <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ky3.com\/2026\/02\/19\/breaking-news-vehicle-fire-closes-eastbound-i-44-lanes-near-us-65-springfield\/mailto:digitalnews@ky3.com\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">digitalnews@ky3.com<\/a>. Please include the article info in the subject line of the email.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KY3. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) &#8211; Police are investigating a fiery crash involving two semis on I-44 near U.S. 65&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":476937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-476936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=476936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/476937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=476936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=476936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=476936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}