A dog riding in a pickup was hurt Tuesday (Dec. 15) in a traffic accident on I-55 in Herculaneum that left a Piedmont woman dead, Festus Animal Control Officer Tim Mullins reported.
Fortunately, the injuries to the dog, a Great Dane named Odin, about 1 1/2 years old, were not life threatening, Mullins said.
“It was bleeding pretty bad. I put it in the truck and took it to the vet as fast as I could,” he said. “The dog sustained a lot of cuts and abrasions. It was in the (pickup), not in a crate. The dog was fine as far as attitude. It was just extremely scared. It’s a really nice dog.”
Mullins said that after the accident, he transported the dog to Jones Animal Health Clinic in Crystal City.
“They did X-rays and treated it for the cuts,” Mullins said. “They stapled the cuts.”
He said the husband of the woman who died in the accident claimed the dog on Thursday (Dec. 17).
Lisa A. Merideth, 50, of Piedmont died in the accident, which occurred at 11:14 a.m. Tuesday on northbound I-55 south of McNutt Road, the Missouri State Highway Patrol reported.
Merideth, who had been driving a 2003 Chevrolet 1500 pickup, was pronounced dead at 12:13 p.m. at Mercy Hospital Jefferson in Crystal City, the patrol said.
She was driving northbound in the right lane of I-55 when a second vehicle, a 2004 Dodge 1500 driven by a 29-year-old House Springs man, began to change lanes, the report said.
“Due to an unknown sequence of events,” the patrol said, Merideth’s pickup overturned and she was ejected. She was not wearing a seatbelt.
The man who was driving the Dodge pickup was wearing a seatbelt and sustained minor injuries, according to the patrol.
He was arrested for driving with a revoked license, the patrol reported.