I had just returned home from shopping in St Louis yesterday, August 6th, when the fire department tones dropped and they were dispatched to a motor vehicle accident with ejection on westbound lanes of I-44 near the Stanton Overpass. I grabbed my camera and Onxy and I headed that way in the truck…I figured traffic would be a bear on 44 in the eastbound lanes so I took the North Service Road east, which was a good decision since eastbound 44 was backed up at least two miles and even the fire trucks were having a hard time getting there. I parked near the old resale shop and donned my safety vest, making sure the ac was on for Onxy and then walked back down the service road along the fence to photograph the single car accident, facing west in the passing lane with heavy damage….as I was walking up, two ambulances from St Clair rolled up in the westbound lanes and it appeared there were two to four troopers on scene as well as Chief Eric of Sullivan Fire….

…what you cannot see from this angle, was emergency personnel performing cpr on the driver that was ejected, located in the median grass on the other side of the car…a passenger was also still trapped in the car….

…and firefighters attended to the trapped driver soon after, when additional personnel arrived to make that possible….

…the driver was reportedly passing a tractor trailer on the right side when the two collided and the car rolled, ejecting the driver who was not wearing a seat belt….the driver was fatally injured…the normal result of ejections…I never get out on that interstate or any other highway without my seat belt on…ejections are the main reason we have seat belts and they are one of the best safety devices that were added to cars and trucks long ago.