3 INJURED IN ILLINOIS ACCIDENT

MCCLURE, Ill. -- A mother and her two young children from Scott Air Force Base, Ill., were injured Monday night when the car they were in collided with a semi-truck on Illinois Route 3, one mile north of here, near the Union-Alexander County line.

Illinois State Police at District 22 Headquarters in Ullin said the driver of the car, Dorothy Driscoll, 24, received major injuries and was transported by helicopter to Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau. Her two children, Bryan, 2, and James, 4, received minor injuries.

The trucker, Robert Simpson, 22, of Sandoval, Ill., was not injured.

Investigators said the Driscoll car was southbound on Route 3 when it ran off the right side of the shoulder, then came back onto the pavement and swerved into the path of the northbound semi-truck.

The accident occurred at about 8:15 p.m.