Boy Killed While Riding Bicycle on Highway Near Sesser

SESSER, Ill. API -- A car driven by a Southern Illinois University student struck and killed a young boy riding a bicycle Thursday night.

Lindell Tittle, 12, Route 1, Scheller, was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital.

Wayne D. Kirk, 19, Route 2, Robinson, said the glare from headlights on oncoming cars blinded him and he couldn't see the boy. Kirk was accompanied by two SIU students who were enroute to their homes for a long weekend. The students had gotten an early start, they said, because flu had caused classes to close one day early at SIU.

Source: The Harrisburg Daily Register
Date: Saturday, October 26, 1957
Submitted by: Robert W. Loman