ST. LOUIS — Legal counsel representing the family of Riverfront Times founder Ray Hartmann maintains that the highway collision that killed him in April was completely preventable.
According to Missouri State Highway Patrol accident reconstruction records reviewed by FOX 2 News, Hartmann died on April 23 along Interstate 64, just west of Interstate 270, after a wheel detached from a traveling semi-truck and struck his vehicle.
Edwardsville attorney Troy Walton, who was retained by Hartmann’s family to investigate the fatal crash, stated that tandem wheel assemblies do not detach without severe mechanical failure…