ST. LOUIS — One person died and another was hospitalized after a crash involving a semi-truck in south St. Louis Thursday afternoon, the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department said.
The crash happened at about 2:50 p.m. near South 2nd and Sidney streets in the city's Kosciusko neighborhood, near Soulard.
A 2005 Pontiac G6 was traveling eastbound on South 2nd Street at a high rate of speed when it did not stop at the stop sign and struck the 2019 Freightliner semi-truck, police said.
Both drivers were transported to an area hospital, the department said.
The driver of the Pontiac was pronounced dead. Monday afternoon, police identified him as 35-year-old Brant Renfro of Salem, Illinois.
The 62-year-old driver of the semi-truck was listed in stable condition.
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