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St. Charles announces new plan to crack down on reckless driving
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ST. CHARLES, Mo. – The City of St. Charles is launching a new summer crackdown on reckless driving in the area.
Mayor Dan Borgmeyer said it’s a growing problem that puts neighborhoods in danger. He and the police want to diminish the issue before it gets out of hand.
“It’s called “zero tolerance.” One of my primary complaints that I’m receiving from the mayor’s office is speeding, all kinds of speeding,” Borgmeyer said. “We were kind of a quiet little community, and now our 25 mile-per-hour speed limits, we are starting to see people coming to court with tickets of 45, 55, even 65 miles per hour. It’s unsafe, it’s intolerable, and we’re just at the point where we’re going to draw the line now, and if you’re speeding in St. Charles, you’re going to be ticketed, and you’re going to be fined.”
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The crackdown started this week and will run through August. The mayor said they are also going to put an end to kids illegally driving golf carts. He said there is going to be an explosion of underage drivers putting golf carts on the road. Borgmeyer said if anyone under 15 was caught driving a golf cart, then their parents will be ticketed.
Part of the effort also includes a crackdown on expired temporary tags. Officials said a similar approach last year was hugely successful. Police Chief Ray Juengst for the St. Charles Police Department, said this is the time to act, which is what the city is doing.
“As a society, we’ve seen since COVID, it’s like nobody understands what the speed limit is anymore,” Juengst said. “So we really need to put that back in their minds. We’re taking a zero-tolerance approach, what that means is if you’re speeding, you’re going to get a ticket.”
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JEFFERSON COUNTY, Mo. – Two people are behind bars after a man reportedly attacked a Jefferson County deputy with a screwdriver during an attempted arrest over the weekend.
Prosecutors have charged Nicholas Davis, 47, and Amanda Davis, 45, of Dittmer, Missouri, with felonies in the investigation.
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The alleged attack followed a traffic stop of a driver in the 9500 block of Jones Creek Road on July 7, though the driver was not Nicholas or Amanda.
According to court documents obtained by FOX 2, Nicholas reportedly came out of his nearby home, yelled at a deputy and started approaching him while holding a screwdriver. The deputy initially ordered Nicholas to back away, then used pepper spray.
Per court documents, the deputy attempted to arrest Nicholas, who then struck him in the chest with the screwdriver. Amanda reportedly approached the deputy and pulled him away from Nicholas before both ran inside their home.
The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office says the situation prompted an hours-long standoff involving negotiators, a SWAT team and a K-9 deputy. The situation led to Nicholas refusing warnings and being bitten by a K-9.
Nicholas and Amanda are both jailed in the Jefferson County Jail without bond. Nicholas is charged with first-degree assault on a special victim and armed criminal action. Amanda is charged with resisting/interfering with arrest.
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ST. LOUIS — The new St. Louis schools superintendent will be officially sworn into office today. Dr. Keisha Scarlett took over the job in July after the retirement of Dr. Kelvin Adams. She was assistant superintendent in the Seattle Public School District. The installation ceremony is at 6:15 p.m. before the regular school board meeting.
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ST. LOUIS — A gasoline tanker truck crashed into a Metro transit center near Riverview and Hall Streets early Tuesday morning and knocked over a power pole. The pole is leaning on other power lines. Police have the area blocked off here because there is a downed power line. Ameren and Metro crews are also on the scene.
The incident happened around 12:30 a.m. It’s still unclear exactly what caused the crash, but we do that there was a second vehicle somehow involved. The airbags on that second vehicle did deploy.
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Police at the scene have not been able to give us a lot of details. Metro officials tell FOX 2 that the transit center here is operating this morning for passengers and buses. Access to certain areas will be limited here as clean up unfolds.
A Metro spokesperson says half of the station isn’t being used right now because of safety issues. It isn’t impacting overall bus operations, everything is just happening on the other side of transit center.
The extent of the damage to the actual transit center is still unclear, but I’m told it does not appear to be extreme. A Metro spokesperson tells me there were no injuries to any metro workers or passengers. The tanker driver also was not injured.
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