Lewis and Clark Boulevard<\/a> near Haviland Drive.<\/p>\nIn a letter sent to families over the weekend, Ritenour High School Assistant Superintendent of Secondary Education Bruce Green expressed the weight of the loss.<\/p>\n
“It is with a heavy heart that I have to share the news of the passing of one of our students,” Green wrote. “This is a difficult time for our entire community.”<\/p>\n
According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, a southbound Cadillac SRX sideswiped a Lexus RX 350, causing it to cross the center line and collide with an oncoming Toyota Highlander.<\/p>\n
The front end of the Toyota struck the Lexus, causing the Lexus to overturn.<\/p>\n
The Cadillac then veered off the road and crashed into a group of trees.<\/p>\n
Police in Bellefontaine Neighbors are currently working to locate the Cadillac’s driver for questioning.<\/p>\n
The driver of the Toyota, 28-year-old Andrea Medina, was also killed.<\/p>\n
“This is my neck of the woods,” Keyonna Sherwood of Harris & Hall Dove Release said. “I\u2019ve grown up right in this area. We take this road to work all the time. That could have been us.”<\/p>\n
In response to the tragedy, the company is offering free memorial services, including dove releases and memorial videos to the families of all three victims.<\/p>\n
For Sherwood and Joshua Harris of Harris & Hall Dove Release, the tragedy is a grim reminder of the dangers of Lewis and Clark Boulevard.<\/p>\n
“I pray that St. Louis steps up,” Harris said. “How many more deaths do we need before they step up and make a change here?”<\/p>\n
“We just really want the families to know and understand that even though this is a tragic incident, their loved ones won’t be forgotten,” Sherwood added.<\/p>\n
The investigation into Friday’s crash is still ongoing. Lewis and Clark Boulevard has seen six other crashes this year.<\/p>\n
Grief counselors will be at Ritenour High School on Monday to offer support to students and staff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An 18-year-old Ritenour High School student and two other people died Friday in a multi-vehicle crash. Police are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-219154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}