Around 8:25pm last night The Missouri State Highway Patrol along with The Bates County Sheriff's Office and Bates County EMS all responded to a 1 vehicle rollover accident in The Northbound lanes of I-49 around mile marker 123.8.
The accident occurred when the 2006 Ford driven by Jeffery Culey 45, of Independence, Missouri was traveling NB on I-49 began to slide on the ice covered roadway and struck a gaurd rail overturned and came to rest in the median. The driver was taken by ambulance to Bates County Memorial Hospital with moderate injuries.