Police this afternoon identified a man killed early Saturday in a fiery head-on crash with a tractor trailer as Kyle Lauders, 20, of O’Fallon, Mo.
Investigators suspect Lauders had been drinking alcohol before the 3 a.m. crash on westbound Highway 40 near BaratHaven subdivision in O’Fallon. The crash shut down the highway for several hours.
Lauders was driving a 2000 silver Infiniti eastbound in the westbound lanes of Highway 40, police said. He crashed head-on with a tractor trailer driven by Danny Lanier, 48, of Kansas City. The collision caused what police described as a large explosion that melted the truck’s cab and part of the trailer. Lanier was not hurt.
Lauders died about 3:40 p.m. Saturday at St. John’s Mercy Medical Center in Creve Coeur. Police are awaiting toxicology tests to confirm whether Lauders had been drinking.
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Thank God he didn’t take anyone with him.
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Sorry the MSHP website is http://www.mshp.dps.mo.gov/HP68/search.jsp.
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Check out the Missouri Highway Patrol website [www.MSHP.org] crash reports. This happens several times a month. Sad. Really sad.
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Once a year? How so? Isn’t it more like 20-25%-ish, 50% on the weekends, of all fatal crashes? If it was suicide I wouldn’t care so much, it the acceptable form or murder that gets me.
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with this almost happening once a year im starting to think this is a new form of suicide
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Kyle Lauders, dead, at the age 20, because of drinking and driving. Such a waste. My thoughts and prayers are with his family, at this time. May Kyle RIP
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