ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. — Neighbors along Kingston Drive are calling for changes after a crash sent a car into a front porch, marking the latest in a series of crashes along the busy stretch.
St. Louis County Police said since 2025, there have been 22 crashes on Kingston Drive. Of those, nine involved injuries, totaling 14 people hurt, and one crash was fatal.
That deadly crash happened last month when a man was killed, and police said it was the result of speeding.
In 2023, one woman was killed after her car crashed into a home near the intersection of Kingston Drive and Telegraph Road. At the time, police said the vehicle was traveling southbound on Kingston Drive toward Telegraph Road at an “extremely high rate of speed.” However, police explained that it may have been due to a medical emergency.
That’s just down the road from here because Telegraph Road ran between Jefferson Barracks (and beyond) in the St. Louis area and Fort Smith, Arkansas. However, down here, it’s called Old Wire Road, and when it was a contiguous route beside the telegraph wire poles, it ran through my neighbor’s yard.
I used to live up there in Lemay, where this story takes place. My sainted mother died in a house a couple of blocks away. And my favorite aunt owned two different houses in the area, including the one I lived in with my mother for a time.
The roads have been what they are for a long time. What’s different now is the people driving on them.
