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St. LOUIS COUNTY — A Bayer Crop Science executive died Friday from injuries sustained in a crash on Interstate 270. 
Mauricio Amore Ferreira, 47, was pronounced dead at Mercy St. Louis Friday, about two days after he was injured in a crash on I-270 northbound near Creve Coeur, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol. 
Amore Ferreira was driving a 2015 Mercedes sedan on the highway just north of Clayton Road about 10:30 p.m. Wednesday with two passengers in the car, men ages 40 and 41.
When the Mercedes attempted to change lanes, a driver of a 2016 Kia Optima heading the same direction collided with the rear of the vehicle causing the Mercedes to hit the highway's concrete median, according to the highway patrol.

The Kia also spun off the road and into a ditch, the highway patrol said.  
Amore Ferreira died two days later. One of his passengers, the 40-year-old man, was also seriously injured in the crash.
Amore Ferreira got a degree in industrial engineering at Universidad de Los Andes in Colombia before beginning a nearly 20-year career at Monsanto in the late '90s where he did work focusing on Latin American and Indonesian markets, according to his professional LinkedIn page. 
Amore Ferreira began working for Bayer Crop Science when the company acquired Monsanto in 2018 and most recently held the title of Global Commercial Strategy & Deployment Lead, according to the page.

He was a father of two children and was involved in Ladue schools, according to his social media pages. St. Louis County property records show he lived in Ladue.

urban_dilettante wrote: ↑

Oct 30, 2020

blowing through stop signs at 50 MPH (I almost got killed on my bike by one of those).

urban_dilettante wrote: ↑

Oct 30, 2020

Laife Fulk wrote: ↑

Oct 30, 2020

Adding to my list of personal experiences here, experienced a car pass me on the left (in the opposite traffic's lane) on Tower Grove Ave just north of Vandeventer this evening.  Not only did they blow through every stop sign at like 50 mph, but they even drove on the curb (the SW corner... so they were still going north in the southbound lane) when they turned left onto Swan.  How they managed to not hit that street light or stop sign I have no clue.  There are no simply rules on St. Louis roads.

this is actually a big part of why we finally decided to leave—the general lawlessness. we were seeing this kind of stuff all the time around our neighborhood, and we were threatened several times for trying to block garbage from speeding around us. one lovely woman tried to pass me in the parking lane on Grand going about 60 MPH and when I wouldn't let her pass she followed me to my destination and told me I was gonna get shot—that we "weren't in charge 'round here no more." something very similar happened to my spouse not long after. and there were a couple of occasions where we got followed and had to pass our house and drive around until we lost them. all because we veered slightly to stop them from passing us at a stop sign. add to that all the bullsh*t that we saw on a daily basis but weren't involved with. pieces of sh*t turning left from the right lane on a red light. blowing through red lights. blowing through stop signs at 50 MPH (I almost got killed on my bike by one of those). going 60 in a 30. passing in the oncoming lane, in the turn lane, in the parking lane. it just got to be too much for us.

eee123 wrote: ↑

Oct 30, 2020

urban_dilettante wrote: ↑

Oct 30, 2020

blowing through stop signs at 50 MPH (I almost got killed on my bike by one of those).

Same here. One car was passing another going 50 westbound through a 4-way stop, and I was slowly rolling northbound into a turn eastbound onto the racers' street. Good thing I was listening closely as I approached.

That lack of safe places to bike anywhere near downtown (other than the riverfront trail) is going to be a big factor in getting me to move. And the fact that almost every daily walk features some new evidence of an out-of-control car crossing a sidewalk somewhere.

I spent time as a bike messenger in NYC years ago, so it's not a general fearfulness of biking around cars. It's a fearfulness of the small minority who drive at a criminally negligent level.

eee123 wrote: ↑

Oct 30, 2020

urban_dilettante wrote: ↑

Oct 30, 2020

blowing through stop signs at 50 MPH (I almost got killed on my bike by one of those).

Same here. One car was passing another going 50 westbound through a 4-way stop, and I was slowly rolling northbound into a turn eastbound onto the racers' street. Good thing I was listening closely as I approached.

That lack of safe places to bike anywhere near downtown (other than the riverfront trail) is going to be a big factor in getting me to move. And the fact that almost every daily walk features some new evidence of an out-of-control car crossing a sidewalk somewhere.

I spent time as a bike messenger in NYC years ago, so it's not a general fearfulness of biking around cars. It's a fearfulness of the small minority who drive at a criminally negligent level.

urbanitas wrote: ↑

Oct 30, 2020

Laife Fulk wrote: ↑

Oct 30, 2020

Adding to my list of personal experiences here, experienced a car pass me on the left (in the opposite traffic's lane) on Tower Grove Ave just north of Vandeventer this evening.  Not only did they blow through every stop sign at like 50 mph, but they even drove on the curb (the SW corner... so they were still going north in the southbound lane) when they turned left onto Swan.  How they managed to not hit that street light or stop sign I have no clue.  There are no simply rules on St. Louis roads.

It's almost funny, but a couple times a week I'll see someone just flying down the street, weaving through traffic, straight through intersections, red lights/stop signs ignored, or taking corners or blowing down alleys at 50+ mph, like they are being chased, and they are trying to lose them. Every time, I stop and listen, hesitant to cross the street, thinking that surely a cop car or a carload of gangsters is going to come screaming down the street after them, and then...nothing. It never happens.

And then I regularly find tire tracks and bits and pieces of bumper, trim, hub caps, wheel well lining ( occasionally even whole cars ) strewn all over the place around the dead-end, grassy closed sections of street in the neighborhood.  So someone obviously drove over curbs and sidewalks at a high rate of speed as if they were trapped and desperate  to get away...

I just don't get it.

sc4mayor wrote: ↑

Oct 31, 2020

^ STL used to have a ton of red light cameras...every lawyer in town told people not to pay them...no one did and eventuality they were overturned at the State level.  Those aren’t gonna do a damn thing.  I recently moved back here to STL after close to 13 years in a different city...and the problems were all the same in that city too.  If you think moving outside of STL to escape sh*tty drivers is gonna work for you...I bet I could talk you into buying an old bridge.