Driver killed in collision with pickup truck

GIBSON CITY – A 44-year-old Gibson City man was injured Thursday afternoon in a head-on collision that killed a La Grange Park woman.

Illinois State Police reported that Kathleen Lynn Hodgman, 48, was driving north on Illinois 47 about 4:10 p.m. when she pulled out to pass a van and a semitrailer truck, and hit a 1999 Ford pickup truck head-on. The collision occurred about two miles north of County Road 300 North.

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