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National Briefing | Midwest: Illinois: Truck-Van Crash Kills 4
New York Times
November 13, 2004 - A van carrying commuters from two aerospace companies collided head on with a tractor-trailer on a Mississippi River bridge, killing four people and injuring four others, the authorities said. The state police said the van was on the Martin Luther King Bridge between East St. Louis and St. Louis before dawn when it struck the 18-wheeler, spilling diesel fuel that caught fire near the Illinois end of the bridge. The wreck closed the bridge for five hours. A spokeswoman for one company, Boeing, said five riders were employees and the other two worked for GKN, a British aerospace company with a plant in St. Louis. The truck driver was hospitalized and listed in stable condition, and the three injured commuters were hospitalized and listed with conditions that ranged from fair to critical.
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