One was injured after a tire blew out and caused a collision on I-57, two miles north of Edgewood, Monday afternoon.
A truck tractor and trailer driven by 54-year-old Kenneth Ray Young, of Abilene, Texas, was northbound on I-57 when the passenger steer side tire blew out causing the vehicle to exit on the east side of the roadway and strike a tree.
Young was transported to St. Anthony’s Hospital in Effingham for treatment and charged with having an Unsafe Tire.