Pinckneyville, Elkville Drivers Involved in Nashville Accident

</element><element id="paragraph-1" type="body"><![CDATA[An elderly Pinckneyville man was transported to a St. Louis hospital after a traffic accident Thursday morning in Nashville that blocked traffic near the Alco store on Rt. 127 north.

Details of the accident were not available until today.

Nashville Chief of Police Martin Andrews reports that 83-year-old Marion Wheeler of Pinckneyville was taken to Washington County Hospital in Nashville and transferred from there in stable condition to St. Louis University Hospital following the 8:30 a.m. accident.

Andrews says Wheeler, driving a 1998 Chevrolet truck, apparently was stopped to turn left into ALCO and failed to see an oncoming semi tractor trailer truck, which struck his vehicle. The semi went into a ditch south of Mercantile Drive. Wheeler's vehicle spun and hit a 1997 Ford F-150 behind him driven by carolyn Johnson of Elkville.

The driver of the semi was Craig Timmerman of Aviston, who was not injured.