The three victims in the multi-vehicle crash on May 25, 2022 have been identified as follows:
- Crider, Alexias, twenty-two-years of age
- McDaniel, Aiden, two-years-of age
- McDaniel, Brantley, one-year-of age
As the community rallies around the McDaniel/Crider family, accounts have been set up at Southern Bank and West Plains Bank & Trust Company to help the family.
All the money donated will be distributed to the mother/family to help cover funeral costs.
If you choose to donate at Southern Bank, please let them know to deposit money into the “funds account set up by John Adamson, care of Jennifer Crider”.
On May 25th, 2022, at 1:21 pm, officers with the West Plains Police Department were dispatched for a multi-vehicle traffic crash located in the area of U.S. Highway 63 and State Route 17, in West Plains, Missouri. The caller advised a semi-truck and trailer had collided with a car.
The officers that arrived in the area found the semi-truck and trailer overturned onto a car. They also found an SUV with heavy damage in the intersection. It was later learned that the semi was traveling northbound on U.S. Highway 63 and struck the SUV in the intersection of U.S. Highway 63 and State Route 17. The semi then overturned onto the car which was traveling southbound on U.S. Highway 63.
The occupants of the semi had no visible injuries. Two occupants of the SUV were transported to a local hospital for minor to moderate injuries. One of the occupants of the car was transported in critical condition to a hospital in Springfield. Crider and the two McDaniel children were fatally injured in the crash.
The investigation is ongoing.
