Columbia man killed after getting hit by semi-truck on I-70 in Callaway County

October 22, 2025 3:06 PM

Published October 22, 2025 8:33 AM

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)

A Columbia man was killed on Tuesday night after he was hit be a semi-truck on Interstate 70.

According to a Missouri State Highway Patrol crash report, a 44-year-old Columbia man was walking in the left lane of eastbound I-70 near mile marker 137 when he was hit by a semi-truck just before 10 p.m. Tuesday in Callaway County.

The pedestrian was pronounced dead at the scene and taken to Parker-Millard Funeral Home. The name of the victim is not listed in the crash report.

The semi-truck driver, a 51-year-old man from Buchanan, Tennessee, was wearing a seatbelt and was not injured in the crash.

This is Highway Patrol Troop F's fourth deadly crash in October and the 39th of 2025.

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Jazsmin Halliburton joined ABC 17 News as a multimedia journalist in October 2023.

She is a graduate of the A.Q. Miller School master’s program at Kansas State University.

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