Belleville,IL : ATV crash leaves 1 teen dead, 1 critically injured on August, Friday 11th 2017

A 13-year-old girl died in an ATV crash during the weekend, and another is critically injured in the hospital.

The girls, Raelyne Cheek and Erica Wallace, both from Medora, were driving their ATV eastbound on Challacombe Road around 4 p.m. Friday, approaching Illinois 267, and did not stop at a stop sign, Illinois State Police said. A tractor-trailer driven by 59-year-old Donald Young, couldn’t avoid the ATV and struck it.

Both girls were ejected from the ATV, police said. Raelyne was pronounced dead on the scene, and Erica was taken to St. Louis Children’s Hospital in critical condition. Erica has a broken pelvis, her brain is bleeding, is on a ventilator and was still in critical condition as of Monday evening, her mom said.



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ATV crash leaves 1 teen dead, 1 critically injured