CHESTERFIELD, MO : Eastbound lanes of Highway 40 still closed in Chesterfield after fatal tractor-trailer crash on Monday, 12th November 2018

An eastbound tractor-trailer slammed into another truck that was parked on the shoulder of Highway 40 (Interstate 64) Tuesday morning, killing one trucker and igniting a fire that burned for hours.

The 4:30 a.m. crash, between Boone’s Crossing and Chesterfield Parkway West, closed all of the highway’s eastbound lanes into the afternoon. All lanes weren’t reopened until just before 5 p.m.

The trucker who died was in the moving truck, a 2019 Freightliner. He was identified Tuesday afternoon as Darrell A. Stewart, 29, of Greensboro, N.C.

The Freightliner struck another tractor-trailer whose driver had pulled over onto the shoulder after having mechanical issues, authorities said. That vehicle was a 2015 Volvo.

“He had his triangles out, his flashers on, all of the equipment he was supposed to be using,” to alert other motorists he had pulled over, Trooper Dallas Thompson of the Missouri Highway Patrol said.

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