UPDATE 12:20 P.M.

Lane has been cited with traffic citations only for Failure to Reduce Speed to Avoid an Accident and Following too Closely.

The article below remains intact as it initially appeared, with this above exception.

WILLIAMSON CO., Ill.—The man on the motorcycle struck by a well-known southern Illinois woman Monday night died of his injuries early yesterday morning, according to multiple sources, including one official who asked not to be identified.

The secrecy surrounding Brittany Lane, 27, of Marion, and the incident in which the collision occurred is typical of how things proceed when Lane is involved, and entails her proclivity and reputation for being a “Badge Bunny” (a person who prefers to have relationships with and chases after cops). Sources are advising that in this instance, there’s a major coverup going on to prevent the dissemination of the cause of the wreck, since Lane is currently seeing a state cop, Justin Mitchell.

Brittany Lane

Officially, all authorities are releasing is that there was a wreck in an unincorporated area of Williamson County at the intersection of Stotlar Road and Cemetery Road, between the municipalities of Marion and Herrin, Monday evening (times in published reports have varied anywhere from 5:15 to 6:30 p.m.). In the vague reports, an unidentified car, driven by an unidentified driver, struck an unidentified male motorcyclist when making a turn. The motorcyclist received grievous injuries and was taken by helicopter to a hospital. And that’s all the public has been allowed to know right now.

What we learned last night is what we knew at about 7 p.m. Monday night: That the driver of the car was Brittany Lane, and the bike rider was Terry Rawson, a former coach at Murphysboro who was on his way to watch his granddaughter play in a ball game.

We also learned that Lane made numerous phone calls at the scene in an attempt to ensure she wasn’t going to get in trouble, and was relying on her current relationship with Illinois State Police trooper Mitchell to aid in this.

However, apparently Mitchell wasn’t in the area; he was up in Jefferson County, according to official reports. So that means that whatever authority working the accident was likely limited to Williamson County Sheriff’s personnel, particularly since the accident didn’t happen on a state highway, as we had reported Monday night (although it was just mere miles north of Illinois Route 13 between Marion and the Herrin turn, as we did report.)

We also learned that the ever-inappropriate Lane, who apparently has some deep-seated mental or emotional problems, was prodding her 7-year-old son to get out and look at the man lying on the ground bleeding from a serious head injury and vomiting blood…and if any of you have been following our coverage of this woman over the past five yours, you’ll know that while this is bizarre behavior, it’s right in line with what she puts her children through on a regular basis, all of it documented in court files.

We have also learned that her cell phone was not confiscated upon authorities’ response to the wreck. It is generally standard practice these days to do such a thing when there’s a wreck involving bodily injury, since Illinois now has an “electronic communications” law that prohibits any kind of cell use while driving unless it’s hands-free. Our sources are telling us that Lane was having an ongoing text conversation with someone about her daughter when the collision occurred. Lane is now supposedly claiming that her cell battery was dead when the collision happened, and that she used her son’s (yes, a 7-year-old’s) phone to make her frantic calls for help. However, the recipient of the texts at the moment of the wreck may still have those as coming in from Lane, so despite all her machinations, the entire charade she appears to be trying to run might be for naught.

She also is attempting to defend what happened by stating that there was some kind of “blackout” on Rawson’s bike’s turn signals or other bike lighting, which is the cause of her inability to see him when he made the turn. That, too, can be easily disproved….if authorities are doing an honest assessment of the wreck.

That, however, might be a stretch.

Dusty Lingle and tha Brittster in an “insurance” pic

Lane has been able to drive recklessly, under the influence, and dangerously for a number of years, basically, ever since she was in her teens and was destroying marriages even then, starting with DuQuoin trooper Joey Watson’s when she was still in high school. She continued on that course, ensuring that at the very least, her revelations of sexcapades with married cops, local, county and state, were such that she could use them to offset any kind of trouble she might get into (by threatening to reveal photos or incriminating emails/texts etc between herself and whatever was the cop du jour). As a result, up to this point, while she has gotten out of multiple citations and other kinds of trouble, she hasn’t actually had the kind of collision that would result in the death of someone, so it appears she believed she was ironclad in that regard. However, this might be a little different situation. Our sources from Jefferson County who know Rawson have advised that his family isn’t the kind that will sit back and take whatever the authorities spoon-feed them…and that they have a very good wrongful death case if they so choose to follow through on it.

This has been the direction in which Lane has been headed for more than a decade now; as a self-centered, cocaine-sniffing narcissist who uses her ‘attributes’ to get ahead in life instead of doing something productive (like even holding a job), she is self-destructive and now, has taken someone down with her…just like we’ve been saying for five years now.

IF more information is made public about the situation, we’l bring it to you; in the meantime, it appears local media is going along with the cops in the cover up, so we’ll see how long THAT lasts if the Rawson family steps in to take matters into their own hands…something that a lot of families in southern Illinois have had to do in recent years in many quadrants, as authorities become more reticent due to their own bad propensities. Keep watching.