Created: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 1:15 a.m. CDT
Franklin Grove teen injured in crash
By Staff report
news@saukvalley.com
800-798-4085, ext. 501
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Cody Stahl, 17, was in critical condition Monday at Rockford Memorial Hospital.
Lee County Sheriff’s deputies were called to the scene at 5:18 p.m.
According to deputies:
The Jeep was eastbound on Old Mill Road, left the road on a curve in the 1600 block, hit the pole and a wire fence and came to rest in a grass field next to a downed live power line. Stahl was not wearing a seat belt, but his air bag did deploy.
He was taken to KSB Hospital in Dixon then to Rockford.
The accident remains under investigation. No tickets were issued.
