Ironically three years ago today, we reported on another serious accident McVicker was involved in: ” November 2011- Owasso student Abigail McVicker, a junior was in a serious auto accident this moring. She had to be cut out of her vehicle by the jaws of life and then be life flighted to Saint Francis Hospital in Tulsa. McVicker failed to make a curve in the road and hit a cement column, head on. She has a broken femur, hip, and pelvis on the left side and a shattered ankle with stitches on her foot on the right side, broken vertebrae by her tail bone, a ruptured spleen, a concussion, and stitches from the air bag. Officers credit her surviving to wearing a seatbelt”
11/28/2014 7:53:01 PM
Abigail McVicker
McLEAN, ILLINOIS — Four Oklahoma residents were seriously injured Friday morning in a single-vehicle rollover crash on Interstate 55, a mile south of McLean.
Driver David Watson, 19, of Broken Arrow, Okla., was in serious condition late afternoon Friday at Advocate BroMenn Medical Center in Normal, a clinical coordinator said. He had been wearing a seat belt, according to Illinois State Police District 6, which is investigating the crash.
Also injured were three passengers: Melissa Scherer, 21, of Tulsa, Okla.; Abigail McVicker, 19, Owasso, Okla,; and Bailey Workman, 20, also of Tulsa. Scherer was in stable condition later Friday at BroMenn and Workman was in serious condition. McVicker was transferred to OSF Saint Francis Medical Center, Peoria, where she was being evaluated in the emergency department late afternoon Friday. Family reports she will be undergoing surgery Saturday morning.
State police received the call about 7 a.m. Friday. According to its report, the vehicle driven by Watson was northbound on Interstate 55 when it left the road and rolled over twice before coming to rest on its side in the median.
State police did not have to close lanes to traffic.
Watson and his passengers were transported by ambulance to the hospital; the vehicle is a total loss, state police said.
No tickets had been issued later Friday, but the crash remains under investigation, said Illinois State Police.
In addition to state police and the McLean County Sheriff’s Department, several other agencies also responded to the crash scene. They included Mt. Hope-Funks Grove Fire Protection District, Heyworth Ambulance, Dale Township Fire Protection District, Allin Township Fire Protection District, Minier Ambulance and Bloomington and Normal Fire Departments, said Mt. Hope-Funks Grove fire Chief Eric Fulk.
