WEST UNION — A small Valley town is in mourning as it loses two of its resident in one crash. One was an EMT.
The accident happened just after 9 central time on Illinois Route 1 at County Road 300 North just south of West Union.
Illinois State Police say 37-year-old Dotti Bright of West Union failed to stop at Route 1. She sideswiped the ambulance driven by 66 year old William Crumrim of West Union.
Both the ambulance and Bright’s truck ended up overturned in a ditch.
State police say no charges have come as the result of this accident, though they are still investigating.
52-year-old Richard Poorman of West Union, an EMT who was treating a patient in the back of the ambulance, died at Crawford Memorial Hospital in Robinson.
45 year old Stephen Daugherty of West Union was a passenger in Bright’s vehicle.
He died at Carle Hospital in Champaign.
The patient in the ambulance was 52-year-old Paul Cornwell of Annapolis.
He was taken to Deconess Hospital in Evansville for serious injuries.
