Victim identified in I-55 fatal crash

A Sturdivant, Missouri, resident died Wednesday, Feb. 22, in a two-vehicle crash on Interstate 55 at Cape Girardeau.

A release from Cape Girardeau Police Department states Redawn Milam, 36, who was driving a 2016 White Mack CXU truck pulling an empty trailer, died when the vehicle collided with a 2015 Red International truck pulling an empty trailer driven by Eric Leake of 45, of Fulton, Missouri.

Leake’s vehicle was northbound near the 93 mile marker when it hydroplaned during a rain shower and left the road to the left.

Leake and a witness said the vehicle continued through the median and guardrail before it came to rest in the inner passing lane of the southbound lanes of the interstate, where Milam’s vehicle crashed into it.

Milam was taken to a local hospital with severe injuries and then transported to Saint Louis University Hospital.

Leake was taken to a local hospital with minor injuries.

The crash occurred at 3 p.m.