Joseph Yeager Killed in a Crash on January 21, 2021 in St. Louis County, Missouri

Joseph V Yeager of Moscow Mills, MO was killed on Thursday, January 21, 2021 at 1:45PM in St. Louis County, Missouri. Yeager is a 23-year-old man.

The crash happened here: southbound Interstate 270 north of Interstate 64.

In the crash, Yeager was a driver. The police described the crash like this:

FATALITY REPORT - VEHICLE 1 WAS TRAVELING SOUTHBOUND ON INTERSTATE 270. VEHICLE 2 WAS STOPPED IN LANE 1, WITH EMERGENCY LIGHTS AND AN ARROW STICK ACTIVATED, DUE TO CONSTRUCTION WORK. THE FRONT OF VEHICLE 1 STRUCK THE REAR OF VEHICLE 2. DRIVER 1 WAS FATALITY PRONOUNCED ON THE SCENE AT 1359 HOURS ON 1/21/2021 BY CREVE COEUR FIRE DEPARTMENT PERSONNEL. ASSISTED BY TPR. L. A. DEZNER (660), CPL. K. R. BECHAUD (163), TPR. W. H. ABEL (132), CVO R. E. FAIN (W140), CPL. A. L. BRYAN (384), MSGT. M. E. BRONIEC (598),

Injuries

Yeager's injuries were fatal. Yeager was taken by Schaefer Mortuary Service to St. Louis County Morgue.

Vehicle Damage

The police said the damage to the 2006 Ford F450 driven by Yeager was total. It was removed by Towed To/By Mcnamara'S Towing. The damage to the 2016 International Workstar 7400 driven by Walls was moderate. It was removed by Towed To/By Mcnamara'S Towing.

How To Get the Highway Patrol Report

Tpr M G Bennett and McIu Team Msgt P J Kempke Sgt J A Mulkey and Sgt J D Cox of the Missouri State Highway Patrol wrote up the report. The highway patrol assigned report number 210033321 to this crash. The highway patrol charges $6.90 for each certified report (certification required for court). The highway patrol is currently backlogged and they state on their website that you will have to wait 10 days and may have to wait an "extended period of time" beyond that for the report. Further, unless you qualify under the Federal Driver's Privacy Protection Act, the report you get will have important and necessary information such as photographs, social security numbers, driver license numbers, names, addresses and telephone numbers redacted (blacked out).

The information in this article came from the Missouri State Highway Patrol website.