Mallory Carter & Audrey Smith ID’d As Victims In Saturday Night MO Triple-Fatal Vehicle Crash

SCOTT COUNTY, MO. (THECOUNT) — Mallory Carter of Brighton, Illinois and Audrey Smith of Bridgeton, Missouri, have been identified as the young women killed Saturday night in a triple-fatal vehicle crash in Scott County, Missouri. 20-year-old Andrew Marzuco of Ste. Genevieve, Missouri, has been identified as the young man killed.

Carter, 19, and 20-year-old Smith, were killed along with Marzuco in a single-vehicle crash near Benton Saturday night. Three other young women were injured.

According to reports, Carter was operating a Ford F-150 pickup truck with Smith and Marzuco as passengers, when the vehicle wrecked while attempting to avoid an animal in on Interstate 55 near Benton around 7 p.m. Saturday. The vehicle then exited the roadway and came in contact with a tree.

Carter, Smith and Marzuco were pronounced dead of blunt force trauma injuries at the scene.

A 20-year-old Ste. Genevieve woman and a 24-year-old Chesterfield woman suffered minor injuries. A 22-year-old St. Louis woman suffered moderate injuries. They were all transported to area hospitals in unknown condition.

The cause of the crash remains under investigation.

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Geo quick facts: Scott County is a county located in the southeastern portion of the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2010 census, the population was 39,191. Its county seat is Benton. The county was organized in 1821 and named for U.S. Representative John Scott, the first federal representative from Missouri – Wikipedia.