Jury said drunken driver caused fatal I-70 crash, but was she really a victim too?

Dec 23, 2015

There’s a lot that Kelli Smith can’t remember about Feb. 25, 2012.

Dec 23, 2015

There’s a lot that Kelli Smith can’t remember about Feb. 25, 2012.

She doesn’t know how she ended up in her car that night, driving the wrong way across Interstate 70 in Montgomery County, 50 miles east of her home.

She can’t recall the head-on crash that killed Thomas David Sullivan II, 35, a worker at the General Motors plant in Kansas City, as he made a regular weekend trip home to the St. Louis area to see his sons, 4 and 7.

She doesn’t remember a minor crash she apparently caused a half-hour earlier, at 3 a.m., in Callaway County on the same highway.

And she can’t explain why emergency workers found her naked from the waist down, her pants crumpled in the back of her demolished car.

A brain injury suffered in the crash appears to have wiped out those memories and more.

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