The Nation - News from May 18, 1986
A child struck by a tractor-trailer rig died in spite of a massive blood drive on her behalf. Karrie Ann Kutyba, 11, had received transfusions at the rate of three pints an hour since she was struck Monday while riding her bicycle, hospital personnel said. Her need for blood exhausted supplies around her home town of Dixon, Ill., and hundreds of residents responded by donating blood, Red Cross chapter manager Ann Fox said. The truck driver has not been identified, and police said he may not have realized he struck the girl.
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