ST. LOUIS, MO : St. Louis Police respond to 2 fatal crashes on Sunday, 17th December 2023

Police are investigating two fatal car crashes hours apart early Sunday.

St. Louis Police incident reports show officers responded at 4:48 a.m. to a report of a single-vehicle crash in the 1100 block of Riverview Drive. Paramedics responded to the crash and pronounced the victim, a 32-year-old woman, dead at the scene.

Police said a preliminary investigation showed the vehicle involved in the crash, a 2008 Mercedes sedan, was traveling south on Halls Ferry when it entered the Halls Ferry Circle roundabout in the wrong direction. The car then jumped the curb in the roundabout, traveled through the center of the circle and emerged on the other side.

The car returned to the roadway, then traveled across a parking lot in the 1100 block of Riverview Drive where it struck a utility police, police said.

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