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Phelps County double fatality
Posted: 08.28.2012 at 5:53 AM
Newsdesk KRCG
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 Two men from St. Louis were killed in a car crash in Phelps County yesterday.


At 8:30 yesterday morning Jama Ali was driving his Mustang on I-44, in an area 8 miles west of Rolla.


Highway patrol says he went off the left side of the roadway and hit the back of a tractor trailer driven by 51-year-old Kenneth Carroll's.


Ali and his passenger, 41-year-old , Liban Dirie were pronounced dead at the scene.


Carroll was not injured.

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