Linda Rush, The Southern | Posted: Sunday, December 7, 2008 12:00 am
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Several road accidents over the weekend included
some blamed on slick Southern Illinois pavements.
Brent Blank, 21, of
Charleston was injured shortly after 2 a.m. Saturday when the Jeep
Cherokee he was driving went off Old U.S. 51 and landed upside down
in a creek west of the intersection with Cedar Creek Road, the
Jackson County Sheriff's Department reported Sunday.
The Makanda
Township Fire Department responded and freed Blank from the water
and the wreckage. He was submerged up to his neck in the water,
deputies said. He was transported to Memorial Hospital of
Carbondale by the Jackson County Ambulance Service. His injuries
were not considered life-threatening, the report said.
Deputies also
investigated three other single-vehicle accidents early Saturday
morning that occurred because of slick roads after winter
precipitation. No injuries were reported in any of the accidents.
The sheriff's department received about eight calls reporting
vehicles that had slid off into ditches, the news release
said.
In Williamson
County, deputies reported two accidents Saturday evening, with no
injuries reported in either. The first was a two-vehicle crash
around 5:25 p.m. on West Grand near Samuel Road. The other involved
a vehicle-deer crash just before 6 p.m. on Grassy Road near Caney
Branch Lane. A vehicle struck a deer and a second vehicle, swerving
to avoid the first, went off the pavement and hit a
tree.
