Pedestrian Killed in Washington County

(Washington County, MO) A Mineral Point man, 33 year old John A. Laws, is dead after being struck by a tractor trailer at 11:09 p.m. Friday. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol report, 44 year old Kenneth L. Lyons, of Bonne Terre, was driving a tractor trailer, going east on Highway 8, west of Route U, in Washington County. The tractor trailer struck Laws, as he was walking in the roadway. The truck began to skid and traveled off the right side of the roadway. Laws was taken to Washington County Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Lyons was not injured.