St. Charles County Fatal Auto Accident on Interstate 70
An individual was killed in a rear end car collision in Missouri when he was struck by a suspected drunk driver, according to a report from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. According to the account, the driver, a Wright City resident, was driving a 1990 Mercury Topaz eastbound on the I-70 and was in the right lane when another vehicle doing over 100 miles an hour hit the rear of the Topaz.
The Missouri auto accident happened near Bryan Road as one vehicle switched lanes to get past a tractor-trailer and then hit the other car. The impact of the collision from the speeding 1991 Mustang pushed the other car off of the freeway, Missouri Highway Patrol officials said. One individual ran away from the crash and was arrested later. That individual’s blood-alcohol content was approximately three times the legal limit of .08, investigators said. He has been charged with involuntary manslaughter and fleeing the scene of an drunk driving accident in Missouri.
According to Chapter 577 of the Missouri Revised Statutes, "a person commits the crime of leaving the scene of a motor vehicle accident when being the operator or driver of a vehicle … and knowing that an injury has been caused to a person or damage has been caused to property, due to his culpability or to accident, he leaves the place of the injury, damage or accident …." In this case the intoxicated driver could face felony DUI charges also.
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