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A man was pronounced dead after a crash involving a street sweeper in north St. Louis County early Friday morning.
According to police, Lamont Purley, 30, was driving a 2001 Ford Mustang on the on-ramp to southbound I-270 from St. Charles Rock Road around 12:30 a.m. when he lost control of the car in the rain. Police say Purley’s car hit a concrete median wall and a MoDOT street sweeper.
Purley was pronounced dead at the scene and the driver of the street sweeper was transported to a local hospital with minor injuries.
The driver of a tractor-trailer was killed in a single-vehicle wreck on Interstate 70 near Warrenton on Wednesday.
Police say 25-year-old James Lutjen was driving westbound on I-70 near the Warrenton exit around 3 p.m. when his tractor trailer overturned into the median.
Authorities say Lutjen was taken to the hospital, where he later died.
All lanes of westbound I-70 were closed at one point until crews cleared the scene.
The Clay County Prosecutor’s Office charged a 20-year-old man with involuntary manslaughter in the death of a husband and father, whom they say he crashed into head-on Monday afternoon while speeding and drunk.
According to the probable cause statement, Joseph C. Surratt, 20, of Lee’s Summit, told a detective he doesn’t know why he was driving his 1994 Pontiac Sunbird so fast when he lost control at 102nd and Woodland at about 2:15 p.m. Monday in the Northland.
A 90-year-old Franklin County man is dead after his car was hit by a tractor-trailer near Washington.
The Missouri Highway Patrol identified the driver as Raymond Kastendieck. The Washington Missourian reports that the crash happened Monday afternoon on State Route 47.
Kastendieck’s 2004 Dodge Stratus collided with the tractor-trailer after the elderly driver lost control of his car, which struck a guardrail and then crossed into the opposite lane.
Four Illinois residents were injured in a one-vehicle crash at 4:15 a.m. Saturday, April 19, in rural Pike County, Mo.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol reported Christopher D. Humberg, 38, of Boling Brook, Ill., was driving a 2011 Dodge Charger on Pike County Road 206 .3 mile east of state Highway 79 when he lost control of the vehicle.
It went off the right side of the road and hit a culvert, then became airborne, hit an embankment and overturned.
Humberg and three passengers were injured.
Police said several people were injured after an accident in Jefferson County Wednesday evening.
Authorities said the accident, which involved four cars, occurred near the intersection of Missouri Highway A and Old Highway A around 6:30 p.m.
According to police, a vehicle traveling eastbound on Highway A crossed over the center line before side swiping two cars and hitting another one head on.
The Missouri Highway Patrol said both roads were closed for several hours.
One person was hospitalized after a car and Metro bus collided in the Dutchtown neighborhood in south St. Louis Tuesday morning.
The wreck happened at the intersection of Grand and Delor around 6:15 a.m.
Police say one person was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Two other people refused to be transported.
Additional details were not immediately available.
Police say a 35-year-old man was hit and killed by a semi truck on Interstate 270 in north St. Louis County on Tuesday.
According to officials, the victim was crossing the westbound lanes of the interstate between New Halls Ferry and W. Florissant when he was struck around 2:30 a.m.
Police did not identify the victim and other details surrounding the incident were not immediately available.
All westbound lanes were closed for hours while crews worked to clear the wreck. All but one lane was back open by 7 a.m.