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Wednesday, April 9, 2014
A person was ejected from their vehicle during a rollover wreck on Highway 141 in west St. Louis County Thursday morning. The wreck happened in the southbound lanes of the highway just south of Page around 7 a.m. Officials confirmed one person was thrown from the vehicle. They were taken to the hospital with serious injuries. Two lanes of southbound Highway 141 were closed while crews worked to clear the scene. The highway re-opened around 9:50 a.m. The cause of the wreck is being investigated by Maryland Heights police and the Missouri Highway Patrol.
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Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Police are currently investigating a motorcycle accident in the 4800 block of South Broadway in South St. Louis that took place at approximately 8:30p.m. on Wednesday.

The single vehicle accident left the driver with serious injuries.

Police have shutdown S. Broadway as they determine if accident reconstruction will need to be called to the scene.

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Saturday, April 5, 2014

Two teens were killed in a single-vehicle wreck in Jefferson County Sunday night.

According to police, 17-year-old Danielle Pfaff was driving a Pontiac Grand Am southbound on I-55 near Highway 61 around 7 p.m. when the car veered off the right side of the highway.

The car then struck a tree and overturned.

Police said Pfaff was pronounced dead at the scene. Police said one passenger, 16-year-old Zoe Rhymer, later died at the hospital.

A third passenger, later identified as Miranda Brown, 15, suffered moderate injuries.

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Saturday, April 5, 2014
A Cessna 210 airplane crashed Sunday night in Lee’s Summit, injuring two people aboard. Around 5:45 p.m., witnesses at Legacy Park reported a low-flying airplane that appeared to be in trouble. Minutes later, emergency personnel were called to a field off Colbern and Windsor roads, just east of the park, on a report of a downed aircraft.
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Tuesday, April 1, 2014

A man was killed and a woman hospitalized after the vehicle they were in struck a guardrail on Interstate 55 in south St. Louis late Tuesday night.

According to authorities, a vehicle was traveling on westbound Interstate 44 around 11 p.m. when it struck a median while trying to cross onto I-55.

The vehicle spun out of control and went over the median, facing north in the southbound lanes. It then slid into the right side curb of southbound I-55, hitting a guard rail on the driver side.

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Monday, March 31, 2014

Police have identified a 25-year-old man who was killed in a single-vehicle wreck in Kirkwood late Tuesday morning.

According to police, Timothy Walker was driving in the 1700 block of Marshall Rd. around 11 a.m. when his 2002 Oldsmobile left the roadway and overturned, stopping on a steep hill.

Walker, a south St. Louis resident, was ejected from the vehicle and pronounced dead at the scene. Police say he was not wearing a seatbelt.

Police continue to investigate the cause of the crash.

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Monday, March 31, 2014
Nearly two dozen students were injured in northeast Missouri on Tuesday when a school bus overturned in a ditch on a rural road near the Illinois border, the state Highway Patrol reported. The accident happened around 3:30 p.m. Tuesday north of Ewing in Lewis County. The injured students attended Highland Elementary and Highland High schools in the Lewis County C-1 District. Missouri State Highway Patrol Lt. Brian Anderson said the bus rolled over into a ditch on a two-lane road with no shoulders. Eighteen students suffered minor injuries and five were more seriously hurt, he said.
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Tuesday, March 25, 2014

The Missouri Highway Patrol says two vehicles were traveling northbound on Highway 79 near Winfield around 2 p.m. when they collided. One of the vehicles was sent into the southbound lane and slammed head-on into a truck. The driver of the truck, 48-year-old Dennis Stevens, died at the scene. The other driver involved in the head-on crash was taken to Mercy Hospital in serious condition. 

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Monday, March 24, 2014

Two people, including a wrong-way driver, were killed in a head-on collision in Jefferson County on Tuesday. According to police, a driver exited Highway M and got on southbound Highway 21 going north. The driver, identified as 82-year-old Mary Burke, drove the wrong way for several miles before hitting another vehicle at Shady Valley near Imperial around 12:15 p.m. Burke, of St. Louis, was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver in the other vehicle, identified as James Sybert, 25, was taken to the hospital, where he was later pronounced dead. 

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Friday, March 21, 2014
Heartbroken family members are remembering an eight-year-old Kansas City boy tragically killed while playing outside his home on Saturday. Jordan Hale died after getting hit by a van over the weekend near Northeast Winn and North Bellefontaine. Saturday night Hale’s dreams were suddenly cut short. Police say the second grader and his six-year-old best friend, Jesus “Chewy” Gutiérrez, were riding on their skateboards downhill, outside Hale’s Kansas City home, when a van hit both boys. Hale died instantly. His friend was rushed to the hospital with critical injuries, including head trauma.