FRONTENAC, Mo. (AP) – Missouri officials say one person died and five people
were injured in a fatal chain-reaction crash that occurred when two vehicles
stopped in the middle of a highway to avoid a deer.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports the crash happened Friday night when a deer
wandered onto Highway 40 near the St. Louis suburb of Frontenac. That led a
Maryland Heights woman to stop her Nissan SUV in the highway. A Ford SUV driven
by a University City woman also stopped. The Missouri Highway Patrol says that’s
when a car driven by a Wildwood man slammed into the back of the Nissan. Both
vehicles then hit the stopped Ford.
Investigators say a passenger in the Nissan, 75-year-old Giriza Srivastava,
died in the crash. A man and two children in the Nissan were taken to a hospital
with serious injuries. Officials say a passenger in the car and driver of the
Ford suffered minor injuries.
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