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Accident reconstruction crews responded to a serious motorcycle wreck that critically injured a man late Wednesday night in south St. Louis.
The accident happened on southbound Interstate 55 near Gasconade Street . around 10 p.m. According to police, a 46-year-old man lost control of his motorcycle, hit the back of a tractor trailer, flew off of his bike and slid down the highway.
All southbound lanes of I-55 at Gasconade Street were shutdown while crews worked to clear the scene. Officials reopened the lanes around 2 a.m.
A victim in a multi-car crash in Kansas City, Kan., Wednesday has died from her injuries.
Jessica G. Snitz-Rodrigues, 30, of Kansas City, Kan., suffered injuries in a crash at the intersection of 106th Street and Parallel Parkway.
Police said a vehicle traveling westbound on Parallel Parkway struck two cars turning east on Parallel Parkway. It was not clear which vehicle Snitz-Rodrigues was in.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol has identified a motorcyclist who was killed in a wreck in Jefferson County Monday morning.
Authorities say Christopher Keith, 27, was driving a 2006 Yamaha on Highway B near Ridge Rd. in Cedar Hill around 5:40 a.m. when he slammed into the back of a tow truck.
Keith was pronounced dead at the scene.
The cause of the wreck was not immediately known.
Two police officers remain hospitalized after a drunk driver slammed into their cruiser at 43rd & The Paseo Sunday night. Emergency crews had to cut the officers out of their vehicle.
The driver who crashed into the police cruiser had a blood alcohol level of .17, which is more than double the legal limit when he was arrested and taken in for questioning.
The crash happened just before 10 p.m. as the officers were backing up another crew on a traffic stop.
Authorities said an Alton man died after crashing into a traffic light Saturday morning.
Police said the accident occurred close to 2:20 a.m. at the intersection of Homer Adams Parkway and Seminary Road in Alton. Authorities said 28-year-old Kenneth Johnson Jr. was driving a Chevy Trail Blazer at a high rate of speed on the Homer Adams Parkway when he lost control causing his car to hit a traffic light and then flip over.
Four central Missouri residents are dead after their car went off the side of the highway, struck a ditch and tree and became engulfed in flames.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol says 25-year-old Dmitriy Banakh was driving a 2007 Audi when his car went off the left side of Route B in Pettis County at 6:29 a.m. Sunday and crashed.
Banakh and his passengers - 19-year-old Angelika Franchuk, 16-year-old Anna Morgunenko and 20-year-old Daniel Morgunenko - were pronounced dead at the scene.
Their deaths put Missouri's highway fatality rate so far this year at 19.
The Eureka Fire Protection District is mourning the loss of a firefighter who was killed in a multiple vehicle accident while off-duty Friday night.
Missouri Highway Patrol said Greg Light, 49, was traveling westbound along Route O in Franklin County when a car heading eastbound on Route O attempted to pass another vehicle. The passing car then crashed head-on with Light’s vehicle.
Light was not wearing a seat belt and was pronounced dead at the scene. A juvenile passenger in the other car was transported to a hospital with serious injuries. Her condition is unknown.
A 67-year-old man and his 43-year-old wife died Thursday night when they were stopped on 65 Highway in Sedalia and another car rammed into them.
Eldon Coleman, 67, was stopped on the highway at about 10:20 p.m., facing eastbound because of a prior crash. Neither he nor his wife, Melissa Coleman, 43, were wearing a seatbelt when the 63-year-old driver, heading southbound crashed into them.
Dale Carmichael, 63, of Booneville was wearing his seatbelt and survived the collision.
Both Eldon and Melissa Coleman were pronounced dead at the scene.
Drivers who use the Poplar Street Bridge to get into downtown St. Louis were being urged to use an alternate route after a tractor-trailer and two vehicles were involved in a wreck Thursday morning.
The wreck happened on Interstate 64 westbound at Interstate 70 around 5 a.m.
Police say one person had to be cut out of their vehicle. Three people were transported to the hospital with what appeared to be non-life-threatening injuries.
All westbound lanes of I-64 were closed at I-55 until the scene was cleared around 7:10 a.m.