BERKELEY, MO (ST. LOUIS COUNTY) – A man was killed when his Jeep overturned in an accident this evening in the Berkeley area on I-170, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol.
The collision occurred on northbound I-170, near Airport Road, at 8:07 p.m., when 36-year-old Florissant resident Daryl Jacobs, Jr., lost control of his vehicle while traveling at a high rate of speed.
The vehicle, a 2014 Jeep Wrangler, went off the side of the roadway and rolled down a ditch.
Jacobs, who was wearing a seatbelt at the time of the crash, was pronounced dead at the scene at 8:18 p.m.
No other injuries were reported in the crash.
The Jeep was totaled in the crash.
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