A man has been arrested on suspicion of involuntary manslaughter for his function 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 now not release his name. Killed within the crash turned into Brett Korves, 30, of St. Jacob, Ill. Korves worked for the Swansea Fire Department. He was a ten-12 months veteran.
The -vehicle crash turned into 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 flip, police say. St. Louis County Police Officer Benjamin Granda said Korves become 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 driven 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 grownup male, remained on the scene. He had no passengers in his car. Korves turned into married and had an 18-month-vintage 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 complete-time task someplace else, just like the other firefighters in that potential. Korves labored as a delivery driving force for an agency in North St. Louis County. He became on his manner to work Thursday while he turned into fatally injured within the crash, Whitaker said.
Whitaker stated Korves has their own 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 younger 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 coincidence-reconstruction team investigates the crash. Anyone with records is asked to name police at 636-529-8210. Tipsters who want to remain nameless should touch CrimeStoppers online or at 1-866-371-8477.
