21-year-old driver sustains moderate injuries in I-55 crash

ST. LOUIS, MO – A 21-year-old driver from Detroit, MI sustained moderate injuries in a crash on northbound I-55 on Tuesday morning.

Ariel R. Kennedy-Giles was traveling north on I-55 in a 2015 Chevrolet Trax when the passenger side of her vehicle hit the driver’s side of a northbound 2014 Ford F-250, police report. The accident happened north of South Lindbergh Boulevard around 11:22 a.m.

Kennedy-Giles was transported to Mercy Hospital South. She was wearing a seat belt.

The driver of the Ford, 23-year-old Devin C. Heavel, was not injured. He was not wearing a seat belt.

Both vehicles sustained extensive damages.

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