Police said four people killed in an eastern Missouri crash were two Louisville mothers and their 12-year-old daughters who were on their way to a volleyball tournament.
The head-on crash happened Friday morning at approximately 11:00 near Lake Saint Louis and killed 44-year-old Carrie McCaw and her daughter, 12-year-old Kacey McCaw, as well as 44-year-old Lesley Prather and her daughter, 12-year-old Rhyan Prather.
The four were on their way to a weekend club volleyball tournament in Kansas City when their 2014 Honda Odyssey was hit head-on by a pickup truck on Interstate 64, investigators said. The eastbound pickup, being driven by an unidentified 29-year-old man from St. Charles, Missouri, crossed a barrier before entering the westbound lanes of the highway.
Carrie McCaw and Lesley Prather were pronounced dead at the scene while their daughters later died at a hospital. The driver of the pickup suffered non-life threatening injuries.
A criminal investigation of the crash is underway as authorities await the pickup driver’s toxicology results.
Lesley Prather was a Louisville firefighter and former standout University of Louisville volleyball player who attended Pleasure Ridge Park High School. Carrie McCaw played volleyball at Syracuse University after graduating from Assumption High School.
Lake St. Louis, in St. Charles County, is about 40 miles west of St. Louis.
(Some information included in this story courtesy of the Associated Press, the Courier-Journal and FoxNews St. Louis, photo courtesy of CNN.com)
By Ken Howlett, News Director
Contact Ken at ken@k105.com
