Kansas City Employee Presented Safety Award
At the April 3 Missouri Highways & Transportation Commission meeting, Chief Safety & Operations Officer Becky Allmeroth presented Kansas City District Emergency Response OperatorKenneth Cassway with a meritorious safety award.
On Feb. 11, at just past 3:30 a.m., Kansas City Missouri Police Department dispatchers alerted officers of a wrong-way vehicle that was traveling eastbound in the westbound lanes of Interstate 70 at Brooklyn Avenue. Cassway heard the police radio and entered I-70 from Sterling Road and U.S. Route 40 to locate the wrong-way vehicle.
In the area of I-70 and Pittman Road, Cassway observed the
wrong-way vehicle coming toward his MoDOT truck. He used the truck and the JAWS
debris removal tool to stop and pin the wrong-way vehicle between his vehicle
and the concrete median barrier. Cassway and the wrong-way driver were not
injured, and no damage was made to his MoDOT truck.
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