Victim identified in fatal wrong way crash near Dupo
The victim of an early morning wrong-way car accident on Saturday has been identified as a 25-year-old East St. Louis woman.
Just after 4 a.m., Lashay A. McNeil was killed after driving her black Ford Escape southbound in the northbound lanes of Interstate 255 near Dupo and colliding head-on with a Hino box truck, a news release from the Illinois State Police stated.
McNeil was flown to an area hospital and died there, according to the release. The driver of the box truck, 31-year-old Darrell R. Purlee was taken by ambulance to the hospital with minor injuries.
ISP said there was no other information about the crash as of Monday night.
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Hana Muslic
Belleville News-Democrat