ST. LOUIS — A woman fleeing a traffic stop was killed Tuesday when she crashed her vehicle in north St. Louis, police said.
The St. Louis Police Department said that at around 12:30 p.m., an officer with the Traffic Safety Division was conducting traffic enforcement on Interstate 70 at Salisbury and tried to pull over a vehicle that was traveling at least 80 mph.
The driver exited at Grand, and the officer followed, believing she was pulling over. The woman then got back onto the interstate at Grand and fled, exiting again at Adelaide Avenue.
Police said she then ran a red light and drove under the trailer of a tractor-trailer that was driving through the intersection, police said.
The woman was pronounced dead at the scene. Police had not identified her as of Wednesday morning. The driver of the tractor-trailer was not injured.
A spokesperson for the department said there was not a police pursuit involved.
The interstate was closed in both directions for an investigation and reopened just after 1 p.m. The Adelaide ramp remained closed as of early Tuesday afternoon.
The department's Accident Reconstruction unit is conducting an investigation.
This is a developing story. It will be updated as more information becomes available.