ST. LOUIS — Wet and slick road conditions are leading to treacherous travel and alarming neighbors in South St. Louis.
Two separate car crashes Monday morning left behind thousands of dollars in damages. They happened within one hour of each other and only a couple of miles apart in south St. Louis.
Neither of the crashes were fatal, but 5 On Your Side is still trying to learn from police whether or not the drivers in these cars suffered any injuries.
The first crash happened at about midnight on Nebraska Avenue at Chippewa Street. A blue pickup truck lost control and crashed into a light post before smashing into the corner of a building.
Then, just one hour later and two miles down the road, a neighbor's Ring camera caught the second crash on camera. A vehicle flipped over around 1 a.m. and sideswiped several parked cars on a narrow South St. Louis neighborhood street. It happened on Arkansas Avenue near Tower Grove Park.
5 On Your Side was on the scene and spoke with Howard Smith, owner of one of the parked cars that was damaged in the crash.
Smith said he and his wife were in bed when they heard a loud crunch.
"I looked out of the window upstairs and I saw this car here upside down, saw some people out here, and then came out and saw the damage. Three cars had been hit out here, and then I checked my camera and saw what happened. It looked like a car came down the street and just smashed into one car, hit my wife's car, and then flipped over," he said.
Smith said the loud boom startled him, and he did not think it came from a car.
"It sounded like an explosion. Sounded like something had hit the house, it was so loud. It was midnight, so almost 1 o'clock in the morning, so it was really quiet, and then we heard the smash. We didn't hear a horn blow, and we didn't hear a car screeching. We just heard the smash and the boom, and we didn't know what it was," he said.
Both of these overnight crashes serve as a reminder to slow down when there are wet conditions, especially as the temperatures continue to drop.
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