Siefert v. State

OPINION

Patchett, J.

These two cases are consolidated for purposes of this opinion. The claims arose out of an accident which occurred September 27,1976. As a result of the accident, which was a head-on collision between an automobile driven by Donna Jean Siefert and an automobile in which Beverly Beavers was a passenger, Donna Jean Siefert lost her life. Beverly Beavers was seriously injured in the accident.

There is not a great deal of dispute regarding the facts of this accident. The accident occurred on Lynch Road, a road maintained by the State of Illinois in Vermilion County, just outside…