I-55 News Reports

Missouri State Highway Patrol helped 379 stranded drivers in the St. Louis area between midnight and 8 p.m. Sunday. Read More

A crash on I-55 near Lincoln shut down part of the interstate on Sunday night. Illinois State Police took to Facebook to let drivers know to avoid the area. The crash happened northbound on I-55 near ... Read More

Part of northbound Interstate 55 is closed and drivers are being diverted through Lincoln after a traffic crash, state police said Sunday evening. Read More

ISP Troop 6 units are on the scene of a traffic crash on Interstate 55 northbound at milepost 124 near Lincoln.I-55 is shut down and traffic is being diverted ... Read More

Brothers Cameron and Carson Tate left their restaurant job in Liberty at 4:30, p.m. Saturday, usually a 10-minute drive from their home in Kansas City. But the siblings were caught in Kansas City's ... Read More

A Sunday evening crash shuts down portions of Interstate 55 near Lincoln, according to the Illinois State Police. Read More

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WICS) - An Illinois State Police (ISP) squad car was struck on I-55 on Sunday morning. ISP says at 10:54 a.m. a trooper was responding to a three-vehicle crash at milepost 105 on ... Read More

Recently, a shiny new stretch of highway was christened Interstate 57, but it lies west of Interstate 55. Has the sacred order of odd and even numbered interstates been overrun by chaos? The number ... Read More

Police are investigating a fatal crash Friday involving a wrong-way driver.The crash happened just after 4:30 p.m. on southbound Interstate 55 near Sidney.Police said a man driving northbound in the ... Read More

The funeral of Illinois State Trooper Clay Carns was ... vehicle while removing debris from a southbound lane of Interstate 55 near Channahon. Family, close friends and officers from many ... Read More

Family, friends, and fellow officers will gather Friday to lay Illinois State Trooper Clay Carns to rest.Carns, a 35-year-old husband and father of two, was hit and killed by a driver on Interstate 55 ... Read More

EAST ST. LOUIS The Illinois Department of Transportation today announced lanes will be restricted on eastbound Interstate 55 / 64 over Trendley Avenue in ... Read More

A funeral will be held for fallen Illinois State Police Trooper Clay Carns, who died in a tragic accident while clearing debris from I-55 near Channahon, and is survived by his parents, wife, two ... Read More

Tyler LaRiviere / Sun-Times Carns, 35, was struck by a passing vehicle while removing debris on Interstate 55 near Channahon the night of Dec. 23, Illinois State Police said. He was taken to St ... Read More

Northbound and southbound Interstate 55 in Perry County - between mile markers 129 and 129.4 - will be affected as construction crews perform shoulder and median work. According to the Missouri ... Read More

A visitation was held Thursday in Orland Park for fallen Illinois State Police Trooper Clay Carns, who was killed last week in a crash.Trooper Carns, 35, was clearing debris from southbound I-55 near ... Read More

A fallen Illinois State Trooper is being remembered in the suburbs on Thursday. Clay Carns, 35, lost his life while on duty last week. He was killed Dec. 23, just before Christmas Eve, along I-55 near ... Read More

COLLINSVILLE - Devin C. Smart, 26, of St. Louis, died when he was struck by a tractor-trailer truck after he got out of his vehicle on Interstate 55 in Collinsville, authorities said. The Madison ... Read More

A 26-year-old man was fatally struck late Wednesday night by a tractor trailer on Interstate 55 in Collinsville. Read More