Crime & Safety
Man Found Dead 13 Hours After Being Thrown From Crash
Highway patrolmen and paramedics overlooked Kevin Eynard after a crash Saturday night. He was later found dead.
Police say Kevin Eynard, a 28-year-old O'Fallon man, was found dead 13 hours after he was overlooked at a crash site off Highway 94.
Eynard was a passenger in a pickup truck that ran off the highway and overturned around midnight Saturday. The driver, Travis Moore, and another passenger, Joseph Olivastro, were flown to hospitals with serious injuries.
On Sunday afternoon, Moore called Eynard’s father to say he didn’t know what happened to Kevin Eynard. Eynard’s father contacted the Missouri State Highway Patrol. His son's body was found later that day, about 150 feet into the woods where he had apparently been thrown from the pickup and gone unnoticed.
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Patrol Cpl. Juston Wheetley says neither the 911 caller reporting the crash nor the other injured men indicated that a third person was in the pickup.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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