A man has been arrested on suspicion of involuntary manslaughter for his role in a two-vehicle crash Thursday morning that killed a Swansea firefighter near Overland. The motorist, 21, has no longer but been charged. Police did not release his name. Killed in the crash was Brett Korves, 30, of St. Jacob, Ill. Korves worked for the Swansea Fire Department. He was a ten-12 twelve-month veteran.
The vehicle crash occurred at approximately 5:50 a.m. Thursday at Page Avenue and North Warson Road. Korves became fatally injured while his automobile changed into the intersection as he attempted to make a left turn, police say. St. Louis County Police Officer Benjamin Granda said Korves was using a Chevrolet Cruze. He became alone in the car. He changed into trying to make a left turn onto southbound North Warson Road while his Cruze changed into struck in the middle of the intersection by way of a Chevrolet Camaro heading east on Page.
The pressure of the crash drove the Cruze off the road and induced it to roll over, Granda stated. Korves died at the scene. The area is in unincorporated St. Louis County, west of Overland. The driving force of the Camaro, additionally a grown-up male, remained on the scene. He had no passengers in his car. Korves turned into married and had an 18-month-old son, stated Swansea Firefighter Bryan Whitaker, the Fire Department’s spokesman.
Whitaker said Korves turned into a paid, no-name firefighter for Swansea who had a full-time task somewhere else, just like the other firefighters in that position. Korves labored as a delivery driver for an agency in North St. Louis County. He was on his way to work on Thursday when he was fatally injured in the crash, Whitaker said.
Whitaker stated that Korves has their family ties in firefighting. His father remains a firefighter in Swansea; his grandfather retired from the village fire department as an assistant leader. “Just a remarkable man, devoted third-technology firefighter inside the village of Swansea,” Whitaker said. In 2012, the Fire Department’s command personnel voted Korves firefighter of the year. He received it that year, in the element, due to the paintings Korves installed as one of the leaders within the department’s cadet software, which teaches skills to humans as young as 14, Whitaker stated.
In addition to his love for firefighters, Korves had a passion for the aspect as a dust-music driving force. Whitaker stated branch group of workers would meet with Korves’ own family Friday afternoon to discuss funeral arrangements and ask if they want a procession of firefighters to accompany his frame from the medical experts in St. Louis County to Illinois.
The St. Louis County Police Department’s Bureau of Crimes Against Persons and the coincidence-reconstruction team investigate the crash. Anyone with records is asked to call the police at 636-529-8210. Tipsters who want to remain nameless should call CrimeStoppers online or at 1-866-371-8477.
