Illinois Injury Attorney Blog

Funeral services will be held Saturday for a Carbondale teenager who died in a single-vehicle accident in Central Illinois in mid-December.

Alana Ross, a 19-year-old Carbondale girl was killed in a singe care accident while traveling on Interstate 57 in Effingham County on December 16, 2008. Accordingly to police investigation, Ross lost control of her vehicle and crashed. An autopsy was performed by the Champaign County Coroner, Duane Northrup.

At that time of the accident, central Illinois had been hit with a series of winter storms, and ice was reported on the interstate. Following the accident, Ross was taken to Carle Foundation Hospital in Urbana, Illinois, which is a Level 1 Trauma Center; however, she was pronounced dead upon arrival. While autopsy results have not been completed, Northrup said it appears Ross died from the “significant traumatic” injuries she suffered during the single car accident.