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2 people killed in Jefferson County crash identified

The highway patrol said Joseph Resinger and Alexis Summers were killed after their car went off the road and crashed into a utility pole in Arnold

ARNOLD, Mo. — Two people were killed in a crash early Wednesday morning in Arnold.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol identified the victims as 34-year-old Joseph Resinger and 19-year-old Alexis Summers.

The two were in a 1998 Buick Regal just before 3 a.m. on Jeffco Boulevard near Starling Airport Road when the car went off the road and hit a utility pole.

Resinger was pronounced dead at the scene. Summers was rushed to Mercy Hospital South where she died from her injuries.

First responders closed a stretch of Jeffco Boulevard for several hours while they investigated the scene.

Following the crash, more than 40 people were without power for several hours Wednesday morning. Jeffco Boulevard lanes started to reopen at about 7:25 a.m. 

No other information about the crash has been released.

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