WELDON SPRING, MO : 1 killed, 2 injured after driver suffers medical problem, loses control of pickup in Weldon Spring on Tuesday, January, 9th 2018

One person was killed and two others were injured when the driver of a pickup on Highway 40 (Interstate 64) here suffered a medical problem and crashed into several other vehicles at the Highway 94 exit Tuesday afternoon, police said.

Joshua Freise was driving westbound on the interstate in a 2017 Ford F250 pickup about 4 p.m. Tuesday when he apparently suffered a medical emergency, according to a Missouri Highway Patrol report. Freise's vehicle struck a car on the interstate, then went down the exit ramp at Highway 94, crashing into several vehicles stopped at a traffic light. The pickup overturned and went over an embankment on the side of the road, Cpl. Juston Wheetley said.

In total, the pickup struck five other vehicles, and debris from the crash hit a sixth.

A man who had been in one of the stopped cars died of injuries from the crash. He was identified as William C. Pearson, 29, of the St. Louis area. Pearson was driving a 2016 Chevrolet Cruze that was struck on the left side by Freise's pickup.

Freise, 36, of Moscow Mills, was taken to Mercy Hospital St. Louis for moderate injuries.

Anthony Catalano, 47, of St. Peters, also suffered moderate injuries and was being treated at Mercy Hospital St. Louis. He was driving a 1997 GMC 1500 pickup that was struck.

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1 killed, 2 injured after driver suffers medical problem, loses control of pickup in Weldon Spring