9-vehicle pileup leaves 2 dead, 12 injured in St. Louis

AP foreign
, Wednesday July 16 2008
TOWN AND COUNTRY, Mo. (AP) - A tractor-trailer apparently hit vehicles stuck in traffic on a St. Louis-area highway Tuesday, causing a pileup that killed two people and injured a dozen, authorities said.

Six of the injured were in critical condition after the nine-vehicle crash on U.S. 40, emergency responders said.

It appeared that the semi ran into about five vehicles sitting in backed-up traffic, said State Highway Patrol spokesman Sgt. Al Nothum.

``The driver just ran over the cars,'' he said, adding that no cause had been concretely determined.
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