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Family gets $8 million in fatal trooper crash

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By ABC7
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
January 19, 2011 (SPRINGFIELD, Ill.)

Matt Mitchell pleaded guilty to reckless homicide in the 2007 crash that killed 18-year-old Jessica Uhl and 13-year-old Kelli Uhl. The crash on Interstate 64 near Fairview Heights also injured two people in another vehicle.

The court awarded the $8 million in an opinion dated Tuesday.

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