I-70 wreck Injures Tow Truck Driver - MO (from 2007)

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Emergency crews with the Boone County Fire Protection District respond to a wreck yesterday on Interstate 70 that left two people hospitalized. The accident occurred about 8 p.m. as tow truck driver Raymond C. Ziegelbein, 44, of Sturgeon was removing a Jeep from the shoulder of the eastbound lanes of I-70 near Highway 40, Boone County Fire Battalion Chief Gale Blomenkamp said. A car driven by Richard Carpenter, 24, of Columbia ran off the right side of road and struck the Jeep, tow truck and Ziegelbein, the Missouri State Highway Patrol said. The car overturned, landing on its roof in both eastbound lanes. Carpenter, who was wearing a seat belt, was in fair condition at University Hospital this morning. A passenger in the car, Jubal J. Bowers, 23, of Columbia, suffered moderate injuries. He was wearing a seat belt. Ziegelbein was serious condition this morning at University Hospital.