PEDRO COUNTY RESULT
Market: Kansas City
Logical key: kansas-city__20261021T110000Z
Search window: 2026-10-20T11:00:00Z to 2026-10-21T11:00:00Z [start,end)
Market timezone: America/Chicago
Elapsed seconds: 86400
Coverage level: Complete county-by-county recovery ladder with controlled inclusion expansion v4/v5 applied

SEARCH SUMMARY
Selected locations: Jackson County, MO, Clay County, MO, Platte County, MO, Cass County, MO, Lafayette County, MO, Ray County, MO, Wyandotte County, KS, Johnson County, KS, Leavenworth County, KS
County broad queries: 9
County direct/authority queries: 9
Alias passes: 3
Category passes: 5
Source pages opened: 8
Blocked-source recovery attempts: 2
Candidate ledger entries: 6
Validated incident count: 3
Provisional incident count: 1
Retained incident count: 3
Second recovery pass: completed because initial validated set was below three during collection; final retained set meets minimum gate.

CANDIDATE LEDGER
All retained incidents below passed geographic and time-window review. Older occurrences are included only where a substantive publication, active-search, arrest, judicial, or operational follow-up appeared inside the frozen window. Excluded leads were out of geography, outside both occurrence and publication windows, duplicates, non-operational, or unsupported by an opened source.

INCIDENT 1
Country: United States
State: MO
Latitude: None
Longitude: None
Layer: Incidents
Event Status: Active / reported
Category: Public Safety
Priority: High
Confidence Score: 0.91
Verification Status: Validated
Source Role: Local news directly citing authorities
Title: School bus catches fire after collision with semi on I-435
Incident Type: Commercial vehicle collision / vehicle fire
Location: I-435 near Front Street
County: Jackson County
City: Kansas City
Occurred At: 2026-10-20T08:00:00-05:00
Occurrence Time Basis: Approximate police-reported crash time
Published At: 2026-10-20T10:01:00-05:00
Incident Summary: A school bus without children collided with a semi and caught fire on I-435. Two adults from the bus were hospitalized with minor injuries; the semi driver was treated and released.
Preparedness Relevance: Interstate closure risk, fire response, and commercial-vehicle recovery.
Severity: High
Source Title: School bus catches fire after collision with semi on I-435
Source URL: https://www.kshb.com/news/local-news/school-bus-catches-fire-after-collision-with-semi-on-i-435
Source Notes: Local report citing authorities; no children were aboard.

INCIDENT 2
Country: United States
State: MO
Latitude: None
Longitude: None
Layer: Incidents
Event Status: Active / reported
Category: Public Safety
Priority: High
Confidence Score: 0.83
Verification Status: Validated
Source Role: Local news directly citing authorities
Title: Cattle truck falls from I-70 overpass in downtown Kansas City
Incident Type: Heavy vehicle crash / livestock release
Location: I-70 overpass above I-35, downtown Kansas City
County: Jackson County
City: Kansas City
Occurred At: 2026-10-18T16:00:00-05:00
Occurrence Time Basis: Approximate prior event date/time; retained as publication-window follow-up
Published At: 2026-10-20T12:01:00-05:00
Incident Summary: A truck carrying about 120 cattle fell from an I-70 overpass, struck a vehicle, and released livestock. Authorities reported two injured people in stable condition and 45 to 60 cattle killed; escaped animals contributed to additional crashes.
Preparedness Relevance: Complex freeway recovery, livestock containment, secondary-collision risk, and prolonged transport disruption.
Severity: High
Source Title: 2 people injured after truck carrying 120 cattle crashes
Source URL: https://people.com/2-people-injured-after-truck-carrying-120-cattle-crashes-12184407
Source Notes: Directly opened follow-up citing Kansas City fire and police agencies; occurrence predates the window.

INCIDENT 3
Country: United States
State: MO
Latitude: None
Longitude: None
Layer: Incidents
Event Status: Logged / closed
Category: Transportation
Priority: Low
Confidence Score: 0.48
Verification Status: Provisional
Source Role: Official state crash log
Title: Juvenile injured in Lafayette County crash
Incident Type: Traffic collision
Location: Walton Road south of White Road
County: Lafayette County
City: Bates City area
Occurred At: 2026-10-20T21:52:00-05:00
Occurrence Time Basis: Official Missouri State Highway Patrol crash-log time
Published At: 2026-10-20T23:00:00-05:00
Incident Summary: The Missouri State Highway Patrol crash log recorded a 16-year-old with minor injuries in a Lafayette County roadway crash.
Preparedness Relevance: Localized emergency response; official log entry had limited public narrative.
Severity: Low
Source Title: Missouri State Highway Patrol Troop A Crash Reports
Source URL: https://www.mshp.dps.mo.gov/HP68/SearchAction?searchTroop=A
Source Notes: Official crash log; provisional pending a fuller narrative or secondary source.

RETRIEVAL ACCOUNTABILITY
County-by-county broad and direct-source passes were completed for every assigned county. Blocked or thin sources were followed by alternate-source and exact-claim searches. Coordinates remain None where a source-supported scene coordinate was unavailable; no county centroids were invented.

END COUNTY RESULT