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NewsJuly 11, 1995

TAMMS, Ill. -- A 16-year-old girl was injured in a one vehicle accident Monday in Southern Illinois. Amanda Poole, 16, of Tamms, was injured when her vehicle ran off the road and overturned in a cornfield. She was thrown from the vehicle, said an Illinois State Police officer. Poole apparently wasn't wearing a seat belt, police said...

TAMMS, Ill. -- A 16-year-old girl was injured in a one vehicle accident Monday in Southern Illinois.

Amanda Poole, 16, of Tamms, was injured when her vehicle ran off the road and overturned in a cornfield. She was thrown from the vehicle, said an Illinois State Police officer. Poole apparently wasn't wearing a seat belt, police said.

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The accident occurred at 11:55 a.m. on the Tamms-Olive Branch blacktop, near Sandy Creek Road.

Poole was taken by helicopter to Southeast Missouri Hospital, where she was treated and released.

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