Update: Alton Woman Identified As a Victim In Fatal Crash On Lewis & Clark Boulevard

ST. LOUIS COUNTY – St. Louis County Police have identified the woman killed in a wrong-way, head-on crash on Lewis & Clark Boulevard as 23-year-old Katie Holman of Alton, authorities said Monday, April 6, 2026.

Holman, of the 2900 block of Hillcrest Avenue in Alton, died at the scene after the crash late Friday, April 3, 2026, in the northbound lanes of Lewis & Clark Boulevard near Highway 67, according to the St. Louis County Police Department.

Police said officers from the North County Precinct responded at 10:44 p.m. on April 3, 2026, and found a black Kia Forte and a silver Mercury Grand Marquis involved in a crash with multiple victims.

A preliminary investigation indicates the Kia was traveling southbound in the northbound lanes when it collided head-on with the Mercury, which was traveling northbound, police said.

Three passengers in the Mercury were injured, police said. A 23-year-old man and a 27-year-old woman were taken to an area hospital in critical condition, and a 22-year-old woman was taken to an area hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

The driver of the Kia, an adult woman, was taken to an area hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, police said.

Detectives with the St. Louis County Police Department Bureau of Crimes Against Persons and Accident Reconstruction are investigating.