A Mount Vernon man was killed in a two-vehicle accident 9 p.m. Wednesday on I-44 nine miles west of Springfield.
According to the Highway Patrol report, a 2013 Ford Fusion driven by Stephen W. Branstetter, 36, Mount Vernon, was traveling west on I-44 with heavy, slow moving traffic due to construction and attempted to change lanes to pass a 2019 Freightliner Cascadia tractor-trailer and struck the rear of the trailer.
Branstetter was pronounced dead at the scene by Greene County medical examiner Stephanie Muse at 9:35 a.m.
The fatality was the 71st this year for Highway Patrol Troop D.
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