VANDALIA, IL — A 75-year-old Vandalia man was killed in a single-vehicle crash just after 1 o’clock Sunday afternoon on the west side of Vandalia.

According to the Illinois State Police, Burl Prater was driving on West Main Street, a quarter mile west of Fayette County Road when his vehicle left the right side of the road, overturned and came to rest in a creek bed.  He was pronounced dead on the scene by the Fayette County Coroner.

A passenger in the car, 52-year-old Patricia Bales of Vandalia, was transported by ambulance to an area hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.