ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. – A Chesterfield man died Saturday after clipping a tractor-trailer on Interstate 270.
According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol’s crash report, the crash occurred just before 12:25 p.m. in the northbound lanes of I-270, just south of Dougherty Ferry Road.
The highway patrol claims a 2016 Kia Soul was traveling in lane 4 and attempted to merge into lane 3. The rear left side of the Kia struck the front end of a 1999 Freightliner Conventional. The Kia slammed against the concrete center and overturned.
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The driver of the Kia, Guy Porter, was rushed to Mercy Hospital St. Louis, where he was pronounced dead just before 12:50 p.m. Porter was 65.
The highway patrol said Porter was wearing his seatbelt at the time of the crash.
The driver of the tractor-trailer was uninjured.