AREA TRAFFIC FATALITIES

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Multiple fatalities reported in a traffic accident Saturday on Interstate 70 eastbound about four miles west of Effingham. Illinois State Police say that three residents of Wildwood Missouri died in that mishap which occured around 11 a.m. in a construction zone. A southwestern Indiana woman died Sunday morning when her pickup truck veered off the road and ran headon into a tree. The Daviess County Indiana Sheriffs Department indicates that Kimberly Petty died from injuries sustained in the accident about 10 a.m. Eastern Time near Indiana Highway 57.