By Shawn Henry 
Tragedy struck Bonne Terre early Saturday when a 16-year-old girl died in a violent wreck after dodging cops in St. Francois County. Missouri highway patrol confirmed the teen lost control of her 2013 Buick SUV during the chaotic chase, flipping multiple times before crashing near a flea market parking lot.
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Witnesses say it all went down fast. Officers had tossed spike strips on Highway 67 around 9:30 a.m., but the girl swerved hard, missed the road entirely, and rolled. The impact threw her clean out of the vehicle. She didn’t make it. Authorities haven’t dropped her name yet new policy keeps victim IDs off public reports.
“It was awful,” Ketcherside said. “What was going on to where she felt like she couldn’t stop, she had to keep going?”
She added that dozens of families were in the area at the time. “Thank God it landed where it did,” she said. “Had it come any closer, it could have been even worse.”
Missouri State Highway Patrol Sgt. Andrew Gadberry urged drivers to stay alert and avoid stopping near active police pursuits, saying doing so can cause additional accidents.
Ketcherside said she later saw people she believed to be the girl’s family standing by the wreckage. “Keep that girl’s family in your prayers,” she said. “She was a child. She didn’t get to live a full life.”
The St. Francois County Sheriff’s Office has not released details about why the teenager was fleeing from deputies.