34-year-old pedestrian injured after being hit in Murphy

MURPHY, MO – A 34-year-old High Ridge pedestrian was seriously injured after being struck by a 2021 Nissan Sentra on New Sugar Creek Road on Wednesday morning. Missouri State Highway Patrol reports James W. Hoekstra, 50, was traveling south on New Sugar Creek Road. Jeremiah J. Smith was standing in the southbound lanes of the… Read More

WENTZVILLE, MO – A 35-year-old Wentzville pedestrian was seriously injured after he was struck by a hit-and-run driver on southbound US-61 early Thursday morning. Missouri State Highway Patrol reports an unknown vehicle hit a pedestrian standing in one of the lanes on southbound US-61 north of Highway A around 4:31 a.m. The driver fled the… Read More

ST. FRANCOIS COUNTY, MO – A 32-year-old Farmington pedestrian was injured in an accident on southbound US-67 on Monday morning. According to Missouri State Highway Patrol, Christopher A. Skaggs was outside his vehicle on the side of southbound US-67. Starla R. Francis, 31, was traveling south on US-67 in a 2011 Kia Soul when the… Read More

BOONE COUNTY, MO – A 40-year-old pedestrian from Parson, TN was hit and seriously injured on westbound US-40 on Sunday night. Elizabeth M. Shaffer, 33, was traveling west on US-40 in a 2010 Ford Flex, according to Missouri State Highway Patrol. The front of her Ford hit a pedestrian in the westbound lanes at North… Read More

BONNE TERRE, MO – A 33-year-old Park Hills pedestrian was injured after a 2017 Nissan Altima hit him on southbound US-67 on Sunday afternoon. According to Missouri State Highway Patrol, 23-year-old Destinee D. Anderson was traveling south on US-67 when Jaime M. Lockwood walked into her path. Anderson moved into another lane and the shoulder… Read More

ST. LOUIS, MO – A 55-year-old male pedestrian was injured in a crash at the intersection of Benton Street and North Florissant Avenue on Thursday night. According to KSDK, a 37-year-old woman was traveling north on North Florissant Avenue in a 2009 Chevrolet Malibu. She claims the pedestrian appeared out of nowhere and she could… Read More

FAIRVIEW HEIGHTS, IL – A 55-year-old woman was hit and killed after she got out of a black Chevrolet Malibu and walked into oncoming traffic on westbound I-64. Rena Wood, of Hartsville, TN, got out of the Chevrolet, which pulled over on I-64 at mile marker 11.5, and for unknown reasons walked onto I-64, according… Read More

ST. PETERS, MO – An 18-year-old pedestrian was injured after a 2012 Chevrolet Suburban struck him while traveling on an I-70 exit ramp on Tuesday afternoon. Matthew L. McCoy, 18, was crossing the exit ramp from eastbound I-70 to Cave Springs Road when the Chevrolet was unable to stop and hit him, according to Missouri… Read More

MOLINE ACRES, MO – Police Sergeant Herschel Turner, 54, died from his injuries after he was struck by a vehicle while conducting an overnight traffic stop on Saturday morning. This is an update to an earlier post. According to 5 On Your Side News, Turner was struck by another officer’s vehicle near the intersection of… Read More

CASEYVILLE, IL – Joseph J. Maly, Jr., 73, was struck and killed by a Saturn Outlook when he was crossing northbound Illinois Route 159 on Wednesday evening. According to 5 On Your Side News, the fatal accident occurred near the Hollywood Heights Road intersection around 7:45 p.m. Maly was transported to a local hospital where… Read More