(KTTS News) — A pregnant woman is dead and three others are hurt after a crash Saturday night in Springfield.
Police say the driver of a 2007 Ford Ranger was speeding at Grant and Meadowmere when he lost control and ran off the road.
The truck hit a utility pole, chain link fence, and tree before it rolled over.
Kaylee Fields, 19, from Humansville, was four months pregnant.
Fields and 19-year-old Elijah Smith from Springfield were riding in the bed of the pickup.
Both were ejected when the truck crashed.
Fields died at the hospital.
Smith has critical injuries.
The driver of the truck, 28-year-old Joshua Stone from Springfield and a passenger, 19-year-old Kyle Carlisle from Springfield, had only minor injuries.
Press Release
On Sept. 3, 2022, at 8:05 p.m., officers with the Springfield Police Department responded to a single-vehicle crash at Grant and Meadowmere.
A red 2007 Ford Ranger driven by Joshua Stone, 28, from Springfield, was speeding southbound on Grant from Meadowmere when he lost control and ran off the road.
Kyle Carlisle, 19, from Springfield, was a passenger in the cab, and both Kaylee Fields, 19, from Humansville, and Elijah Smith, 19, from Springfield, were passengers in the bed of the truck.
The vehicle struck a utility pole, chain link fence, and tree before rolling over, ejecting Smith and Fields.
All four individuals in the truck were transported by EMS to the hospital.
Carlisle and Stone had minor injuries.
Smith was listed in critical but stable condition.
Fields, also four months pregnant, succumbed to her injuries.
Fields’ family has been notified.
The investigation is ongoing as to the circumstances involved in the crash.
This was the 17th fatal motor vehicle crash in Springfield in 2022.
