Charges filed in accident that killed two area residents


Hannibal Courier-Post
Posted Apr 15, 2009 @ 02:19 PM

St. Louis, MO —

A truck driver is accused of involuntary manslaughter in a St. Louis area crash that killed two Northeast Missouri residents.
Jeffery Knight, 49, of Muscle Shoals, Ala., is charged with plowing his truck into traffic that was stopped on Interstate 64/40 near Interstate 270 last July.
The crash killed 88-year-old Alvin Mast of Kahoka and 55-year-old Lydia Miller of Canton. Fifty-five-year-old Charles Cason of Caseyville, Ill., also died.
Knight is in the St. Louis County Detention Center in Clayton on $250,000 cash-only bond.