Sadly, another life was taken Thursday after apedestrian was struck and killed in St. Louis, Missouri. Furthermore, the accident is even more tragic because not only is the victim believed to be a teenager, but also the person who struck the victim fled the scene. The accident happened at Chambers and Green Valley, which…
Awrongful death suit that was filed by the family of a killed highway worker is going to trial, and jury selections have begun. In May 2012, four highway workers were struck on Highway 64 in Illinois as they were working in the median. Kory Links, Adam Evans, Dennis Beard, and Brian Moore were repairing…
Interstate 270 in St. Louis, MO was closed early Friday morning after a pedestrian was struck and killed. The accident happened when a 31-year-old man was attempting to cross-northbound lanes of the road just near Ladue Road when he was struck. The driver of the vehicle stopped after the accident, and has been very…
In Glendale, Missouri, a young girl is recovering from a shoulder injury after being struck by a car. In addition, a car at the 700 block of Sappington Road hit the 10-year-old girl Thursday afternoon. The accident happened when the girl was playing with some children in the front yard of a home across…
It seems there’s been an increase lately in pedestrian accidents and fatalities in the St. Louis area, and sadly the following is no exception. Tuesday night in St. Louis, Missouri a man was killed in the south end of the city after a MetroBus struck him. In addition, the accident occurred just blocks from…
Avid animal rescuer, 58-year-old-Sandie Konopelski was killed Friday morning after a MetroLink train struck her. At first police were baffled by how Konopelski ended up on the tracks, and why she did not hear the warning that a train was headed her way. No signs pointed to foul play or suicide, and everyone was…
It was a tragic and busy day in St. Louis on Sunday following several accident. Sunday afternoon on U.S. 54 in Cole County, Missouri, an elderly man was killed in a motor vehicle accident. Furthermore, 80-year-old Alexander Klimenko was struck after he stopped his car on the passing side of the road. According to the…
Sadly, a person was struck and killed Friday morning by a MetroLink train in Belleville, Illinois. The unidentified person was hit and killed near the Swansea station and Scheel Street. The female pedestrian was walking on the tracks for unknown reasons when the westbound train hit her. The victim’s car was found near the…
A commuter train struck and killed a man Wednesday in Wheaton, Illinois. Authorities responded to the accident around 7 p.m. near Manchester Road and Birch Drive. The DuPage County Coroner pronounced the 37-year-old victim dead at the scene of the accident. The Metra Train was traveling west of downtown Wheaton on Union Pacific tracks….
It was, unfortunately, a night that a father and son from St. Louis will never forget. Likewise, what started out as a fun night a Blues hockey game, almost ended up in a fatal hit-and-run. On April 7, a vehicle near the Scottrade Center in downtown hit 19-year-old, Brendan Staub and his 49-year-old father,…