Baldwin woman fatally injured in wrong-way crash

<span>A 44-year-old Baldwin woman was fatally injured in a wrong-way crash early Sunday morning in downtown St. Louis.</span>

<span>According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Theresa Klein was traveling west in the eastbound lanes of Interstate 44 at Pine Street near the Gateway Arch around 12:20 a.m.</span>

<span>Her vehicle struck another head-on, sending an unidentified 28-year-old woman and a 35-year-old man to a local hospital with non-life threatening injuries.</span>

<span>Klein was also transported to St. Louis University Hospital, where she later died. According to her obituary on Welge-Pechacek Funeral Home's website, Klein was a sixth grade teacher at Oliver Park Middle School in Cahokia and a part-time waitress at Reifschneider's Grill and Grape in Columbia.</span>

<span>She had also previously been a teacher at St. Mark's Lutheran School in Steeleville.</span>

<span>Klein was described as "a free spirit, inspirational, vibrant, intelligent and an incredible mother of two beautiful girls."</span>

<span>Visitation for Klein is Thursday from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. and Friday from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. at Welge-Pechacek Funeral Home in Red Bud. Funeral services are 11 a.m. Friday at the funeral home.</span>

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