Missouri State Highway Patrol reported a 34 year old good Samaritan was struck and killed while attempting to assist another motorist in the median of I-55 south of Highway M in Barnhart. Have you put yourself in a similar situation?On Sunday morning, May 28, Miranda Foster of Ironton stopped on the Interstate to assist another […]
A 56-year-old St. Louis man was killed in April when a tractor-trailer hit the motorcycle he was riding. Struck by a 2016 Freightliner moving north on Carpers Pike, the driver, 58-year-old Odilon Reyes, was unable to stop his vehicle despite crossing both lanes of the highway. The deadly crash highlights the need for increased awareness […]
A hit and run accident has shaken the people of Springfield, according to an article on the Ozarks First website. Hit and run accidents are certainly not uncommon in St. Louis, or in the State of Missouri. In fact, they are a serious problem. In this particular case, the pickup truck that caused the accident […]
Medical malpractice cases are rarely “slam dunks,” but one woman recently won close to $15 million. The case is labeled the second-largest medical malpractice case in state history. The woman’s injuries occurred when she was given an epidural injection in her spine at a same day surgical center. The drug in the injection is named […]
Tractor trailers are driven by professional drivers who are taught about how to avoid crashes that could potentially harm themselves or others, and damage their equipment. Unfortunately, even the smallest incident can lead to a semi-truck accident, and in St. Louis, this happens all too frequently. According to an article on the Herald Tribune website, […]
Most of the time, drivers in St. Louis try to use the utmost in caution when they’re traveling around the streets and highways of the city. They know that an accident can occur at any time, and they also know that our roadways can be very dangerous. A three-way accident occurred in St. Louis recently […]
One would expect that someone who works for the Missouri Department of Transportation would use extra care when traveling on the roads, especially while on the job. However, according to an article on the Fox2Now St. Louis website, one MoDOT worker was taken into custody after causing an accident with three other vehicles. The article […]
Lately, there have been some odd tractor trailer accidents in St. Louis. However, this one might be the oddest of them all. According to an article on the Fox2Now St. Louis website, a twenty-year-old man was displaying some bizarre personal behavior on I-70. Several calls were made to Missouri State Troopers that there was a […]
Usually, when semi-truck accidents are reported, it’s the truck driver who is at fault. Very rarely does the burden of fault fall upon the driver of a four-wheeled car. However, a recent accident was reported on the Area Wide News website, where a semi-truck driver appears to have lessened the severity of an accident that […]
Accidents happen frequently in St. Louis, but hit and run crashes are often the worst. Fortunately, police officers are very good at finding the people behind these crashes, and a recent accident was no exception. According to an article on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch website, a twenty-four-year-old man was recently charged after leaving the scene […]
