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Metropolis Teen Struck By Truck Walking Home From Basketball Game

Illinois State Police say a driver hit a teenager walking home from a Massac County High School basketball game.

Troopers say a pick-up truck traveling southbound on Old Marion Road struck the 15 year old Metropolis boy, who was walking home from the basketball game with his friend Thursday evening.

The victim was taken to Western Baptist Hospital in Paducah Kentucky with non-life threatening injuries.

The driver of the pick-up truck, 24-year-old Christopher Freeman of Grantsburg, did not report injuries

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