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by Larry Kershner
THE OVERBY VEHICLE was opened like a tin can in
an accident Saturday afternoon north of Lyle, on Highway 218,
which killed an 11-year-old girl. (Contributed photo.)
Thirty hours after it happened, Nicole Henaman,
29, of St. Ansgar, still had a quiver in her voice when talking
about the three-car accident she was in Saturday afternoon.
Henaman was driving northbound on Highway 218 at
12:52 p.m., about three miles north of Lyle in her 1995 Dodge
Intrepid.
A 1999 Chevy Suburban was stopped on the road waiting
to make a left turn, when suddenly a 1991 Mercury, being driven
by Linda Rae Overby, 40, of Austin, Minn., came from behind the
Suburban, veered into the northbound lane, clipped the Suburban
and then hit Henaman's Intrepid.
The Intrepid sheared off the passenger side of
the Mercury and 11-year-old Jessica Rae Overby was thrown from
the car.
She was flown from the site by the Mayo One helicopter
and taken to Rochester, Minn. She died on Sunday from injuries
sustained.
The Minnesota State Patrol said that all people
involved in the accident were belted in, but that the air bags
in the Overby vehicle failed to deploy.
Henaman, a nursing student at Riverland Community
College in Austin, said she checked the well-being of her own
three children in the car and then got out to administer CPR to
Jessica Overby.
She was relieved of CPR duty when Gold Cross Ambulance
personnel arrived on the scene.
Henaman is just two weeks from graduating from
nursing school.
"It's good for me to know that I can use the
skills I've been taught," she said. "I never even hesitated,"
she said.
Henaman and each of her children were treated and
released for minor injuries.
The air bags in Henaman's Intrepid did inflate,
for which she credits why her and her children for not being more
seriously injured.
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