Truck driver pleads guilty after 2022 crash that killed woman, two children - KOLR
WEST PLAINS, Mo. – Sentencing is set for June for the driver of a tractor-trailer unit involved in a triple-fatal crash in West Plains in 2022. Clayton L. Rainwater, 24, of Newark, Ark., pleaded guilty on March 17 under an agreement with Howell County prosecutors to three counts of involuntary manslaughter and one count of second-degree assault. Court documents state that Rainwater’s Peterbilt truck, which was carrying a 50-foot trailer full of cattle, crashed into a Nissan Rogue and a Pontiac at the intersection of U.S. 63 and Mo. 17 on May 25, 2022. The Pontiac was trapped under the trailer. The driver of the Pontiac, Alexis Crider, 22, and back-seat passengers, two-year-old Aidan McDaniel, 2, and Brantley McDaniel, 1, were pronounced dead shortly after they were taken out of the vehicle. Another passenger, Remington Crider, was taken to a Springfield Hospital with serious injuries. Two occupants in the Nissan were taken to a hospital with moderate injuries. Rainwater and the passenger in the trailer, Eva Durham, were not injured in the crash. Sentencing is set for 1 p.m. June 4, 2025, in Judge Robert Ray’s courtroom.
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