CENTRALIA, IL – A driver was injured in a collision at an intersection in downtown Centralia Sunday morning, WJBD reported.
Police and first responders were called to the area of North Poplar Street and East McCord Street after the incident took place shortly before 10:30 a.m.
Centralia police said the driver of an SUV was going west on McCord Street when he went through a red light. Another vehicle heading south on Poplar Street struck the side of the SUV.
The SUV driver, a 68-year-old man from Okawville, was taken to SSM Health St. Mary’s Hospital in Centralia with undisclosed injuries. His passenger, a 57-year-old Okawville woman, and the driver of the second vehicle, a 17-year-old male from Sandoval, declined to go to the hospital.
The Okawville man was issued a ticket for disobeying a traffic control device.
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