ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. — A man was killed in a crash on Interstate 70 in north St. Louis County Thursday morning.
The crash happened at about 10 a.m. Thursday near Jennings Station Road. The eastbound lanes of the highway were closed for more than three hours.
Thursday afternoon, the man killed in the crash was identified as 60-year-old Ali Pope, a St. Louis resident.
According to a crash report from the Missouri State Highway Patrol, Pope was driving a 1997 Dodge Ram 1500 pickup truck when the car had a mechanical failure. The report said Pope lost control and swerved into the path of a tractor-trailer.
The report said the tractor-trailer then struck the truck, throwing Pope and his passenger from the vehicle. Pope died at the scene of the crash. His passenger, a 29-year-old woman, was treated at the hospital. The report said she suffered moderate injuries in the crash.
The driver of the tractor-trailer was not injured in the crash. The tractor-trailer suffered extensive damage.
Photos from the scene showed a Ram 1500 with heavy damage. There was a tractor-trailer on the shoulder of the off-ramp at Exit 242.
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