Three people are dead and five others injured in an eight-vehicle chain-reaction accident on northbound Interstate-55 near the 174-mile marker in Jefferson County south of Saint Louis.
The highway patrol says the accident happened Sunday afternoon when the driver of a freightliner truck was not paying attention to slow moving traffic hitting the back of a car starting the chain-reaction.
Two people from Memphis, Tennessee, in the car hit by the freightliner died at the scene along with a Pevely woman in one of the other cars…