Tuesday, July 31, 2012
St. Peters' teen, 18, died in a wrong-way car crash on Sunday morning in Chesterfield.
A funeral service for Nicholas "Nick" Watson, 18, who died July 29 when he drove a car in the wrong direction on Highway 40 in Chesterfield Valley and crashing into a Greyhound bus and another car, will be at 10 a.m. Friday at Baue Funeral and Memorial Center. The funeral home is located at 3950 West Clay Street, St. Charles, MO, 63301. A viewing will a day earlier, on Thursday, August 2 from 4-8pm at Baue in St. Charles. Watson was a St. Peters resident. He was a member of USA Hockey and Missouri Inline Hockey Association, according to the Baue funeral home website. "He enjoyed video games and collecting hats, but most of all enjoyed his family and friends," the website revealed. Watson's parenets are Jonathan and Lisa Watson, and he …
Nick Watson, 18, was killed after driving the wrong way in Interstate 64 in Chesterfield Sunday morning.
Monday, July 30, 2012
Nick Watson, 18, was killed after driving the wrong way in Interstate 64 in Chesterfield Sunday morning.
Authorities have identifed a St. Peters resident as the driver who died in a wrong-way crash on Interstate 64 in Chesterfield early Sunday morning. St. Peters resident Nick Watson, 18, was killed after police say he drove his car east into Chesterfield Valley from St. Charles on the wrong side of Highway 40/64. Police say Watson's car sideswiped a Greyhound Bus and then struck another car head-on. Chesterfield police Captain Steven Lewis said the driver of the second car, Mary Radcliffe, 57, of O'Fallon, was hospitalized. She is in stable condition remaining for treatment. The Greyhound driver, 52-year-old Kansas City resident Andrew Williams and another bus passenger, Jefferson Scott, 27, were injured in the first collision, and …
Friday, June 1, 2012
Matthew Altomore escaped injury after being rear-ended by another motorcyclist on Interstate 64.
A St. Peters man was uninjured in a two-car crash on Wednesday, May 27. Matthew Altomore, 20, was driving his 2008 Suzuki GSX-R eastbound on Interstate 64 at the 5.4-mile marker when another driver made contact with the rear of his vehicle. Ian Lebron-Cortez, 26, of O'Fallon, struck the rear of Altomore’s motorcycle, which caused his 2005 Suzuki GSX-R to overturn. Lebron-Cortez and a passenger, Autumn Stapleton, 21, of O’Fallon, were ejected from the vehicle. Lebron-Cortez and Stapleton were taken to Mercy Medical Center in Creve Coeur by St. Charles County Ambulance. The two sustained what was classified by the Highway Patrol as moderate injuries. Altomore's motorcycle had minor damage, but was able to be driven from the scene. Lebron-…
Friday, November 18, 2011
The Transportation for America report calling Missouri bridges the seventh worst in nation is much ado about nothing, according to MoDOT engineers.
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Friday, November 18, 2011
A recent study ranked Missouri seventh worst in the United States for the overall condition of its bridges. But there’s no need to hold your breath while crossing bridges in the St. Louis region or throughout the state, said Mark Croarkin, a bridge maintenance engineer for the Missouri Department of Transportation. “They included two categories in that list, bridges that are structurally deficient and bridges that are functionally obsolete,” Croarkin said. “There’s not necessarily any problems with bridges that are functionally obsolete.” Bridges by the numbers In the St. Louis region, 121 of the 180 bridges (see list in photo section) on the Transportation for America list were functionally obsolete, not structurally deficient. A list of …
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
East-West Gateway board is schedule to vote on funding June 29.
Funding to replace the Daniel Boone Bridge on Interstate 64 and Highway 40 over the Missouri River likely will be approved for final funding next month, according to an East-West Gateway Council of Governments official. “That project is in our Transportation Improvement Plan funding and MoDOT (Missouri Department of Transportation) has included it in their Transportation Improvement Plan,” said Jim Wild, senior manager for planning and programming at East-West Gateway. However, the funding still would have to be approved by the East-West Gateway Board of Directors, Wild said. The bridge funding will be on the board’s June 29 agenda. The new bridge would cost about $123.3 million, including $98.6 million in federal funds and $24.6 million …
