Friday, January 24, 2025

Pedestrian is Springfield's first traffic fatality for 2025


(From the Springfield Police Department)

On Jan. 24, 2025, at 11:57 a.m., officers with the Springfield Police Department responded to the area near Kearney Street and Jefferson Avenue for a motor vehicle crash involving a pedestrian.

Duron Kinsey-Starks, 28, from Ozark, was driving westbound on Kearney Avenue in a 1995 Geo Prizm when Everett Fleming, 44, of Winfield, Kan., stepped into the road and was hit. Fleming was attempting to cross Kearney from north to south. Fleming did not use a marked crosswalk.








Fleming died at the scene. Fleming’s next of kin has been notified.

The circumstances of the crash are part of an ongoing investigation. Anyone with information is requested to contact the Springfield Police Department at 417-864-1810 or the tips hotline at 417-869-TIPS.

This was Springfield’s first traffic fatality in 2025.

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