16-year-old girl dead, 3 injured when truck hits car on County Road 1550 in Roodhouse, Illinois
16-year-old Roodhouse girl dies in crash Tuesday; three others injured
The unidentified teen was going south on County Road 1550 about 5:45 p.m. and failed to yield when pulling onto the Roodhouse Blacktop. The car pulled into the path of a pickup truck being driven by Nicholas Burton, 35, of Manchester, according to state police.
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The car failed to yield and pulled out in front of the pickup, police said, and it hit the car on the driver’s side.
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