Kirchner v. State

This case involves an accident which occurred at approximately 8:30 a.m. on December 16, 1975, on Route 150 on the overpass over Interstate 74. Route 150 runs in a north and south direction. June Kirchner, the wife of James Kirchner and the mother of two minor children, was driving alone in a four-wheel drive Jeep in a southerly direction from her home in Carlock, Illinois, to Bloomington, Illinois. The Kirchner vehicle apparently flipped over, which resulted in trapping Mrs. Kirchner under the vehicle and causing her death by acute asphyxiation. There were no eyewitnesses to the accident.

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