Springfield Police are looking for the driver who hit a bicyclist and left the scene of the accident Friday morning.

It happened at National and Grand just after 8:00 AM. A man riding his bike north-bound in the crosswalk was hit by a car making a right turn on red.

The bicyclist was taken to the hospital, where he was treated and released.

As the weather warms, more and more bikers will be on the road. The attorneys at Strong-Garner-Bauer, P.C. urge motorists to keep a look out for bicyclists on the road. If you have been involved in a bicycle accident, please contact the experienced bicycle accident lawyers of Strong-Garner-Bauer, P.C. at 417-887-4300.

Missouri health officials say they have narrowed their investigation into E.coli in Missouri to 12 cases with similarities.

The state Department of Health and Senior Services previously reported 15 confirmed cases of E. coli, mostly in central Missouri.

A department spokeswoman says the investigation will now concentrate on 12 cases with similar lab results, geographic proximity and case history.

he Columbia Tribune reports eight people recently sickened by a strain of E. coli reported consuming raw milk from a farm in Armstrong. But samples of raw dairy materials taken from the Howard County farm all tested negative for the bacteria.

Columbia/Boone County health officials say one of four cases in the county, a 2-year-old child, remains hospitalized.

If you or a loved one have fallen ill with E coli, please contact the experienced Springfield E coli lawyers of Strong-Garner-Bauer, P.C. at 417-887-4300.

A Missouri teenager has been charged with involuntary manslaughter and texting-while-driving for killing another motorist. The teenager will face trial as an adult.

In Missouri, all drivers under 21 are prohibited from texting while driving. The offense carries a $200 fine. Second-degree involuntary manslaughter is punishable by up to four years in prison.

The teenage killed a 72-year-old woman and injured the woman’s 10-year old granddaughter last September.

A passenger in Gannon’s car told police that the teen lost control while texting and looking at her cell phone.

“Texting-while-driving is at least as dangerous as drinking and driving. We make a crime of that for anybody, no matter the age. It also ought to be a crime for anybody, regardless of how old you are, to text while driving,” said Prosecuting Attorney Eric Zahnd.

A recent study has shown that despite the known safety risks, teen drivers are now texting more than ever.

Read more: http://www.ky3.com/news/ky3-teenager-from-kansas-city-is-charged-with-texting-before-fatal-crash-20120420,0,885659.story

If you or someone you love has been injured by a texting driver, please contact the experienced car accident attorneys of Strong-Garner-Bauer, P.C. at 417-887-4300.

Two workers were injured when a 70-foot-tall crane tipped over at Mercy Hospital St. Louis as workers were preparing to move the equipment.

The two injured workers were taken into the hospital after the incident, at about 11:45. The condition, although not believed to be serious, is currently unknown.

Creve Coeur Deputy Fire Marshal Jerry McQueen said the crane was at the northeast part of the hospital property, away from the hospital structure, when it tipped over. Workers were preparing to move the rubber-tired crane to move it when it toppled.

McQueen said authorities were waiting on heavy construction equipment to be brought in to lift and secure the crane.

Read more: http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/workers-injured-when-crane-topples-at-creve-coeur-hospital/article_166a9032-8a4a-11e1-a12c-001a4bcf6878.html#ixzz1sY2VfMK9

If you or someone you love has suffered a workplace injury, please contact the experienced workplace injury attorneys of Strong-Garner-Bauer, P.C. at 417-887-4300.

Another person has been added to the list of people sickened by E coli bacteria, raising the number of victims to 14 in Missouri. Additionally, a seventh person has reported drinking raw milk before becoming ill.

The illnesses have been recorded since late March in Jackson, Boone, Camden, Clark, Cooper, Howard and Randolph counties.

Although seven people have now confirmed drinking raw milk, state officials have yet to identify the source of the outbreak.

Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/2012/04/19/3564027/14th-person-sickened-by-e-coli.html#storylink=cpy

If you or a loved one have become ill with E coli, please contact the experienced Springfield, Missouri E coli attorneys of Strong-Garner-Bauer, P.C. at 417-887-4300.

After a salmonella outbreak affecting over 100 people in 16 states, the California based company Moon Marine USA is recalling over 60,000 pounds of frozen tuna used in sushi.

Around a dozen people have been hospitalized with symptoms of fever, diarrhea, and cramps, including three people from Greene County, Missouri.

If you have fallen ill with salmonella, please contact the experienced Springfield salmonella lawyers of Strong-Garner-Bauer, P.C. at 417-887-4300.

The Columbia Daily Tribune reports that six of the thirteen confirmed cases of e coli are linked to consumption of raw milk from a farm in Howard county, Missouri. Other counties with reports of E coli cases are Camden, Clark, Cooper, Howard and Jackson. The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services is still investigating the E coli outbreak.

Symptoms of E coli include stomach discomfort, diarrhea and vomiting. Sometimes victims experience a slight fever. Health officials advise cooking meat thoroughly and washing hands before preparing food as precautions for preventing infection.

Read more: http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/2012/apr/16/five-ecoli-cases-connected-one-farm/

If you have been diagnosed with E coli, please contact the experienced Springfield, Missouri E coli attorneys of Strong-Garner-Bauer, P.C. at 417-887-4300.

MoDot will be conducting a public campaign from April 16 to May 6, which reminds motorists to drive safely around tractor trailers.

The attorneys at Strong-Garner-Bauer, P.C. frequently see individuals severely injured in tractor trailer accidents. Research shows in the majority of cases, drivers of passenger cars–especially young people–endanger themselves due to inattention and reckless driving around big rigs. Learning to drive safely near big rigs will help Missouri’s drivers reduce their risk of serious injury or death.

Some reminders from MoDOT to help keep you safe this travel season are:

Don’t cut off large trucks or buses. Make sure you can see the top of the truck or bus in your rearview mirror before moving back into your original lane.

Stay out of a truck’s blind spots or “No Zone”. Big rigs have large blind spots on either side and up to 200 feet behind a vehicle. Pass only on the left side.

Watch your following distance. Keep a safety cushion around trucks. Can you see the truck’s side mirrors? If not, the driver cannot see you.
Seat belts reduce the risk of fatal injury by 45 percent. Drivers are required by state law to wear their seat belt. Failure to do so can result in a citation. Interstate commercial drivers risk both the driver and company’s safety score if operating without a seat belt.

For additional information regarding roadway safety, or other transportation-related topics, contact the MoDOT toll free, at 1-888-ASK-MoDOT. For more information on the Big Trucks Campaign, visit www.savemolives.com.

If you or someone you love have been injured in a tractor trailer accident, please contact the experienced tractor trailer accident attorneys of Strong-Garner-Bauer, P.C. at 417-887-4300.

Three confirmed cases of salmonella in Greene county, Missouri have prompted the county to issue a warning regarding handling live chickens. The three cases are likely the result of local vendors selling live chickens.

Symptoms of salmonella may include diarrhea, vomiting, fever, and/or abdominal cramps. Severe infections can lead to hospitalization. Infants, elderly persons, and those with weakened immune systems are more likely than others to develop severe illness. Young children are especially at risk for illness because their immune systems are still developing and because they are more likely to put their fingers or other items into their mouths.

The warning provides the following tips for avoiding salmonella:

You can reduce the risk of salmonella infection from live poultry by doing the following:

Do not let children younger than 5 years of age handle or touch chicks, ducklings, or other live poultry without supervision.
Wash your hands thoroughly with soap and water immediately after touching live poultry or anything in the area where they live and roam. Avoid touching your mouth before washing your hands. Use hand sanitizer if soap and water are not readily available.
Adults should supervise hand washing for young children.
Wash hands after removing soiled clothes and shoes.
Do not eat or drink in the area where the birds live or roam.
Do not let live poultry inside the house or in areas where food or drink is prepared, served, or stored, such as kitchens, pantries, or outdoor patios.
If you have free-roaming live poultry, assume that where they live and roam is contaminated.
Clean equipment and materials associated with raising or caring for live poultry, such as cages, feed containers, and water containers, outside the house, not inside.

If you or someone you love have become ill with salmonella, please contact the experienced Springfield Salmonella attorneys of Strong-Garner-Bauer, P.C. at 417-887-4300.

In a recent press release, the FDA has announced that an outbreak of salmonella cases in Missouri and Arkansas are linked to Moon Marine USA Corporation’s frozen raw yellowfin tuna product. Moon Marine USA Corporation has recalled nearly 60,000 frozen raw yellowfin tuna as a result of the salmonella outbreak.

The FDA report provided the following “fast facts” about the outbreak:

Moon Marine USA Corporation (also known as MMI) of Cupertino, Calif. is voluntarily recalling 58,828 lbs of a frozen raw yellowfin tuna product, labeled as Nakaochi Scrape AA or AAA. Nakaochi Scrape is tuna backmeat, which is specifically scraped off from the bones, and looks like a ground product.

The product is not available for sale to individual consumers, but may have been used to make sushi, sashimi, ceviche and similar dishes available in restaurants and grocery stores.

The company name and Nakaochi Scrape AA or AAA were printed on boxes of the product when it was initially sold to distributors. However, the boxes may have been broken into smaller lots for further sale and may not be available to the end retailer or consumer. Therefore, the tuna may not be readily identifiable by retail outlets or by consumers as being from the implicated lots.

The Nakaochi Scrape AA and AAA from MMI was sold through distributors to restaurants and grocery stores that make sushi, and has been linked to an outbreak of Salmonella Bareilly, which has caused 116 illnesses in 20 states and the District of Columbia to date. Of the reported illnesses, there have been 12 hospitalizations, and no deaths.

Many of the people who became ill reported eating raw tuna in sushi as “spicy tuna.”

If you purchase “spicy tuna” or other sushi, sashimi, ceviche, or similar dishes that might contain Nakaochi Scrape from a restaurant or grocery store, check with the establishment to make sure that it does not contain raw recalled product from Moon Marine USA Corporation, also known as MMI. When in doubt, don’t eat it.

Consumers who think they might have become ill from eating possibly contaminated raw Nakaochi Scrape should consult their health care providers.

If you believe you may have consumed tainted yellowfin tuna, please contact the experienced Springfield salmonella attorneys of Strong-Garner-Bauer, P.C. at 417-887-4300.

To read the entire FDA report, visit: http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm300397.htm

Three people were transported to the hospital after a multi-car collision involving a motorcycle at Shawnee Mission Parkway and Antioch near Kansas City. No other details were currently available.

As the warm weather approaches, more and more motorcycles will be traversing the roadways. The attorneys at Strong-Garner-Bauer, P.C. urge motorists to keep an especially careful lookout for motorcycles. Additionally, motorcycle drivers should drive defensively and make sure and give other motorists room for error.

If you have been involved in a motorcycle accident, please contact the experienced Springfield motorcycle accident attorneys of Strong-Garner-Bauer, P.C. at 417-887-4300.

Federal officials Thursday accused a Kansas City grain company of willfully ignoring workplace safety rules, leading to an explosion that killed six workers in Atchison last year.

“The deaths of these six workers could have been prevented had the grain elevator’s operators addressed hazards that are well known in this industry,” U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis said in announcing the citations and $406,000 in proposed fines against Bartlett Grain Co. L.P.
“Bartlett Grain’s disregard for the law led to a catastrophic accident and heartbreaking tragedy for the workers who were injured or killed, their families and the agricultural community,” Solis added.

The Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration proposed the penalties after accusing the firm of five willful and eight serious workplace safety violations in the aftermath of the Oct. 29, 2011, explosion.

OSHA defines a “willful” violation as having been committed “with intentional knowing or voluntary disregard for the law’s requirements, or with plain indifference. …”

Specifically, OSHA investigators found that Bartlett allowed grain dust — which is estimated to be nine times as explosive as coal dust — to accumulate; removed dust without shutting down ignition sources; repeatedly started and stopped equipment to free up grain, and used inappropriate electrical equipment in a grain dust environment.

But Bartlett officials issued a strong denial Thursday, calling the federal citations “flawed,” and said that they take “extreme exception to the willful characterization.”

Company president Bob Knief said in a prepared statement that the cause of the accident is still undetermined and “we certainly look forward to proving wrong OSHA’s unfortunate citations and characterization.”

He noted that, while OSHA asserted that accumulated grain dust helped ignite the explosion, “the evidence is clear and incontrovertible that the grain and dust found by OSHA after the incident was deposited by the accident, and could not have been there prior to the accident.”

The explosion killed four Bartlett employees: Ryan Federinko, 21; Curtis Field, 21; and Chad Roberts, 20, all of Atchison; and John Burke, 24, of Denton; and two private grain inspectors, Travis Keil, 34, of Topeka, and Darrek Klahr, 43, of Wetmore.

Working in grain elevators is one of the most dangerous jobs in what has become America’s most hazardous industry: agriculture. And while deaths from grain elevator blasts such as the one in Atchison are rare, grain bin accidents such as suffocations remain all too common.

“This is a substantial fine,” said Ron Hayes, a workplace safety advocate whose son died years ago in a grain elevator suffocation accident. “But if this is a willful violation, OSHA should follow through and seek criminal charges, as they have historically done in cases like this.”

OSHA spokesman Scott Allen said that seeking criminal charges in the case is a matter for the Department of Labor’s Office of the Solicitor, adding “that decision has not been made as of yet.”

In addition to Bartlett Grain, OSHA also cited Topeka-based Kansas Grain Inspection Services Inc., a contractor employed by Bartlett, for one willful, one serious and one other-than-serious violation, and proposed $67,500 in fines against that company.

Officials at the Kansas Grain Inspection Service said Thursday in a statement that the citations “contradict OSHA’s own instructions that have governed our industry for more than 15 years.”

OSHA cited KGIS for failing to provide fall protection, but company officials noted that “the explosion that killed (our employees) didn’t have anything to do with a fall and, in fact, they weren’t even outdoors when the explosion took their lives.”

“We respectfully, but strongly disagree with OSHA and believe its treatment of KGIS is unfair,” they said. “We plan to appeal the citations and trust the OSHA Review Commission or, if necessary, a federal court will set them aside.”

Both companies have 15 business days to contest the proposed fines.

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2012/04/12/3550908/kc-grain-company-fined-406k-for.html#storylink=cpy

A recent article on KSPR.com suggests that despite all of the warnings and acknowledgments that texting while driving is dangerous, teens are still doing it. The article reads as follows:

Several years after a massive national campaign to stop teen texting and driving a new survey says it isn’t working. conducted for state farm, it shows 14 to 17-year-olds are still texting behind the wheel, while admitting its dangerous, even deadly.

In the summer of 2009 it became illegal for anyone 21 and under to text and drive in Missouri. Since the law went into effect the Missouri Highway Patrol has issued more than 130 tickets for the violation state-wide, but teens themselves will tell you that hasn’t fixed the problem.

2:45 p.m. is high school rush hour. Students pour out of Parkview; the goal– get in the car, get on the phone.

Arianna Beckham and Taylor Hulsey sheepishly admit they don’t just talk, they text.

“Every time I get a text,” Beckyham says she replies.

The girls also admit it’s dangerous; they’ve both been on the receiving end of a texting driver’s folly.

“I was a passenger and the person behind us hit us. She was texting,” Hulsey tells us.

“In the school parking lot the third day I started driving at school I got bumped from a guy texting behind me,” Beckham tells us.

Sometimes it’s worse. Car wrecks are the leading cause of teen deaths in Missouri, and inattention is the leading cause of car wrecks. That’s why for years the state highway patrol has been cracking down on teen texting.

“The highway patrol has not only increased enforcement efforts but we’ve gotten into schools,” explains Sergeant Jason Pace.

A new nationwide survey suggests that might not be enough. The results this year are virtually the same as when it was first conducted in 2010.

57% of the teens surveyed say they have texted while driving. 76% say they believe regular texters and drivers will eventually be killed in a car crash, and 93% say regular texters and drivers will eventually have some kind of a car crash, so clearly there is a disconnect.

Still– Pace is convinced the message is translating.

“Some statistics show you’re 23 times more likely to be involved in a traffic crash while using a cell phone or texting and driving so people are understanding that, they are pulling over,” Pace says.

Shelby Martin is pulling over.

“I was raised better,” the Parkview Student tells us.

So are Evan Atwood and his friend and fellow sophomore Darren Busbey.

“I just wait til I get to where I’m going and check it out,” the boys tell us.

As for Beckham and Hulsey– it may take more direct intervention.

“I got pulled over for speeding, so I don’t speed anymore. So if I got pulled over for texting I probably wouldn’t text anymore,” Beckham concludes.

The Missouri Highway Patrol has added a new feature to its online crash reports in 2012. You can now break down the cause of a crash to something as specific as texting, so it will be easier to track those numbers.

37 states and Washington DC ban texting while driving for drivers of all ages. Six states including Missouri have a ban for a specific age group.

Read more: http://articles.kspr.com/2012-04-10/teen-texting_31321327

The attorneys at Strong-Garner-Bauer have seen first hand the life-changing impact texting and driving can have. Texting while driving not only poses a substantial risk to your own life, but also the safety of everyone on the road. The attorneys at Strong-Garner-Bauer, P.C. urge all drivers to be mindful of this and do not text and drive.

If you have been involved in a car accident where someone hit you while texting and driving, please contact the experienced car accident attorneys of Strong-Garner-Bauer, P.C. at 417-887-4300.

There have been new legal developments out a horrific February car accident in central missouri.

Marty Wilcox, his wife Elisa and the couple’s 3-year-old son Marty were killed February 28 in a head on collision on Highway 52 at Brown Road in Miller County.

The only survivor in the family’s car, was the couple’s baby boy, Gabriel, born just two days before.

Now the mother of Marty Wilcox Sr., has filed a wrongful death lawsuit.

Mary Robinson filed the lawsuit against 19-year-old Emily Frakes on March 19 in miller county.

The Highway Patrol said Frakes crossed the center line on Missouri Highway 52 and hit the Wilcox family head on.

Court documents say Frakes was speeding at the time.

Robinson’s lawsuit claims the teen was careless and negligent.

Robinson said because of that, not only has she lost 3 members of her family, she’s also had to take care of funeral and burial expenses.

The documents also say baby Gabriel will always suffer the loss of his parents and older brother and say the newborn was physically hurt in the crash but the extent of his injuries are unknown.

Robinson claims Frakes was cited for speeding days before the crash and say she showed a conscious and reckless disregard for others.

Baby Gabriel is now in the custody of his mother, Elisa Wilcox’s parents.

Read more: http://www.connectmidmissouri.com/news/story.aspx?id=740815

If a loved one has been taken from you or someone you know, please contact the experienced Springfield Missouri wrongful death attorneys of Strong-Garner-Bauer, P.C. at 417-887-4300.

Deaths from traffic accidents rise 6 percent on tax day, that mid-April paroxysm of collective financial agony, according to a study published in Wednesday’s edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association. This year, since the traditional IRS tax filing deadline of April 15 falls on Sunday, the deadline will be Tuesday, April 17.

A pair of Canadian researchers tallied up U.S. tax day traffic fatalities for each year between 1980 and 2009, then compared the figures to those from two “control” days, exactly one week before and one week after. On average, they found, there were 226 deaths on tax day — 13 more than on nontax days.

The rise in e-filing — which would presumably keep procrastinators from speeding recklessly to the nearest post office — doesn’t appear to have put a dent in the trend, said Dr. Donald Redelmeier of the University of Toronto’s Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, who led the study.

Perhaps that’s because the heightened danger involves more than a deadline dash to a mailbox. Stress is a likely culprit, Redelmeier said: In general, most accidents are the result of human error, not mechanical failure, and stress has been shown to significantly worsen performance behind the wheel.

About 20 percent to 25 percent of American taxpayers file their returns within the last two weeks before the deadline, according to the Internal Revenue Service.

But even for those who don’t procrastinate, the arrival of tax day can prompt enough distraction to spell trouble, said William Helton, a psychologist at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand, who was not involved in the study.

“It might not even be that you’re anxious,” Helton said, but “you’re thinking about the nitty-gritty: ‘Line 27, did I put the right number in?’ ”

And then there are all those other edgy drivers to worry about, Redelmeier said, pointing out that his study used data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration but did not determine the circumstances behind those deadly accidents or ascertain who was at fault.

“Just because you’ve filed early doesn’t mean this is not going to affect you,” he said. “If you’re on the road for 20 to 25 minutes, it brings you into contact with 100 other drivers, any one of which could change your life forever.”

More research is needed to untangle the link between tax day and traffic deaths, said Dr. Ricardo Martinez, who headed the traffic safety administration in the 1990s. Among the outstanding questions: Does the increased risk come from a small number of really stressed-out drivers — last-minute filers, perhaps — or a large number of slightly edgy ones?

Either way, the researchers emphasized that stress is the issue in question here, not Uncle Sam. “We are not advocating an abolition of taxes,” Redelmeier said. “That does not make the problem go away.”

Read more: http://www.stltoday.com/lifestyles/health-med-fit/fitness/fatal-traffic-accidents-are-more-common-on-tax-day-study/article_23c5d859-3260-58cd-9564-1a403f887c98.html#ixzz1rnFpFxWG

If you have been injured in a car accident, please contact the experienced Springfield, Missouri car accident lawyers of Strong-Garner-Bauer, P.C. at 417-887-4300.

An article by the Columbian Daily Tribune has reported that two more individuals have become ill with e coli in Central Missouri. The article reads as follows:

Raw dairy products are cited as a “possible risk factor” in two more cases of a strain of E. coli that has now sickened seven people in Central Missouri.

State health officials reported yesterday that the same strain of E. coli bacteria has been confirmed in infections in Boone, Howard, Cooper and Camden counties. Three of the cases, including a 2-year-old girl who is still hospitalized, are in Boone County.

Five of the E. coli victims are adults. The hospitalized 2-year-old, in addition to a 17-month-old in another county, developed symptoms of hemolytic uremic syndrome, or HUS, a severe condition that can lead to permanent kidney damage.

Symptoms of E. coli infection include severe stomach cramps, diarrhea and vomiting. A fever is sometimes present but is not high. State health officials said most patients’ symptoms improve in five to seven days, but some patients go on to develop HUS, usually about a week after the diarrhea starts.

Gena Terlizzi, public information officer for the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, said consumption of raw dairy products has been identified as a “possible risk factor in some of these cases.” State and county health officials haven’t positively identified the source of the E. coli outbreak.

Terlizzi did not say whether other possible sources of contamination were being investigated.

Current Missouri law provides a limited exception to state milk inspection laws for farmers to sell raw milk or cream directly to consumers. Geni Alexander, public information officer for the Columbia/Boone County Department of Public Health and Human Services, said a bill now under consideration in the Missouri Senate, SB 841, would expand the exception to allow a farmer to sell as much as 100 gallons of raw milk or cream per day at a farmers market.

The city/county health department advises consumers to avoid consumption of any raw dairy product. Alexander said raw milk producers are not subject to inspection by the local health department, which does not track or have a list of people who sell raw milk.

The only time local inspectors would encounter raw dairy products would be during an inspection of a retail food establishment, including farmers markets, mobile food markets and restaurants.

“If we find raw milk at a retail food establishment, we order it destroyed,” Alexander said.

Christine Tew, spokeswoman for the Missouri Department of Agriculture, said in jurisdictions where the sale of raw milk or cream is allowed, producers must first apply to the State Milk Board for a permit. The permit requires compliance with bottling, capping and labeling regulations. Tew said the only permitted facility in Missouri is located in Galena.

Read more: http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/2012/apr/11/two-more-cases-of-e-coli-found-in-central-missouri/

If you or someone you know have become ill with e coli, please contact the experienced Springfield, Missouri e coli attorneys of Strong-Garner-Bauer, P.C. at 417-887-4300.

Missouri state health officials have confirmed that five people from central Missouri, including two toddlers, have become contaminated with E coli since March. Although the exact cause of the contamination is yet to be known, health officials did say that three of the patients reportedly ingested raw dairy products. The health department says that the two year and seventeen month old remain hospitalized with life-threatening conditions affecting their kidneys. The other cases are from Cooper and Howard counties.

If you or someone you love has become ill from an e coli contaminated product, please contact the experienced Springfield, Missouri e coli lawyers of Strong-Garner-Bauer, P.C. at 417-887-4300.

A semi-truck crashed early Monday morning along I-44 in Springfield, MO. One of the occupants of the vehicle was trapped underneath the steering wheel for nearly an hour while crews worked to free him. The accident caused eastbound lanes to be closed for several hours.

If you or someone you love have been injured in a semi-truck accident, please contact the experienced semi-truck attorneys of Strong-Garner-Bauer, P.C. at 417-887-4300.