Illinois Truck Accidents

STROUGH The charred remains of a commercial vehicle that caught fire on Interstate 70 around noon Wednesday stand alongside the highway. The Ohio State Highway Patrol confirmed that the blaze ...[...]

Two people were transported to the hospital with minor injuries after a major crash involving seven vehicles closed traffic on Interstate 70 on Wednesday night. The crash involved three semitrucks ...[...]

COLUMBIA - A vehicle fire involving a semi truck closed traffic on Interstate 70 Wednesday night. Both lanes of eastbound I-70 past exit 127 Range Line Street has been closed. Traffic is being ...[...]

State Police Troop 8 responded to the single-vehicle fatal traffic crash at 10:29 p.m. The driver of the vehicle was a 31-year-old woman from Freeburg, according to police. She reported no injuries at ...[...]

A man died Monday afternoon after his SUV struck a traffic signal pole at Stearns Road and South McLean Boulevard in South Elgin.[...]

Police said that at 2:40 p.m. that day, they responded to the 6200 block of North University Street in response to a vehicle crash involving a pedestrian. When officers arrived, they found a girl who ...[...]

Police said they "continued the low-speed pursuit" until the truck collided with a Lake County Sheriff's Department squad car.[...]

A report of an injured person in north suburban Mundelein led to a police chase and a crash involving a squad car.[...]

Two Lake County sheriff's deputies and a Mundelein police officer suffered minor injuries early Wednesday while trying to stop and arrest a pickup truck driver who collided with a squad car during ...[...]

A semi crash Wednesday on Interstate 74 near Congerville has closed part of that highway, the state police said. The rollover crash occurred at approximately ...[...]

Emergency personnel responded shortly before 2:30 p.m. Monday to a crash involving a pickup truck and an orange Illinois Department of Transportation dump truck on I-255 eastbound near the ...[...]

Chris Neff was struck and killed along Route 29 in Chillicothe while he was trying to assist at the scene of an accident.[...]

Global nonprofit Point 27 recently honored fallen Illinois State Trooper Clay Carns who was struck and killed by a passing vehicle near Channahon as he was clearing debris from the ...[...]

On March 1, 2021, Madelynn Troutt, a senior at Butler High School, was killed in a crash after Dewitt crossed into the wrong lane on Dixie Highway in a stolen pickup truck. She died upon arrival ...[...]

While assisting a stalled semi-truck on Interstate 57, Illinois State Police responded to two separate crashes in the same area.[...]

Police say a trooper conducted a traffic stop on a semi truck on Jan. 18 on eastbound I-80 east of E. 1600th Street near Geneseo.[...]

A wrong-way driver died after colliding with a semi on I-80 in Minooka, with the semi's driver hospitalized. Traffic was rerouted for investigation and cleanup.[...]

One person was hospitalized after a van crashed into a semi-trailer truck and caused the truck to jackknife, blocking multiple lanes on Interstate 94 near Wadsworth. The Illinois State Police and ...[...]

A man was critically injured in a crash between his SUV and a trash truck Friday morning, Belleville police said. The crash occurred at the intersection of Mascoutah Avenue and South Green Mount Road.[...]

It was a head-on, wrong-way crash on westbound I-80 at Minooka Road in Grundy County. Illinois State Police said the driver of a car was going east in the westbound lanes and slammed into a semi-tractor trailer.[...]

A Chicago man, 58-year-old Kieth R. Oswald, died in a head-on crash with a semi early Friday morning on Interstate 80 in Grundy County. Authorities say the crash occurred when Oswald's vehicle, ...[...]

Part of I-74 eastbound in Champaign County was shut down temporarily Friday morning after a single-vehicle crash. The accident happened around 7:34 a.m. when a car struck the center median at milepost ...[...]

Part of Interstate 80 is shut down in Grundy County after a deadly wrong-way crash early Friday morning, Illinois State Police said. ISP said the crash happened in the westbound lanes of I-80 at ...[...]

Around 12:40 a.m., the driver was going east in the westbound lanes of I-80 near Minooka Road when they crashed into the semi, Illinois state police said.[...]

A deadly crash caused lane closures on I-80 in southwest suburban Minooka, Illinois overnight. I-80 was closed for several hours just before 1 a.m. after a crash involving a wrong-way driver and a ...[...]

A wrong-way driver was dead after plowing into a semi tractor-trailer early Friday on Interstate 80 in suburban Minooka.[...]

A crash involving a CTA Pink Line train in the western suburbs left a bicyclist dead on Wednesday evening. The deadly crash unfolded just before 6 p.m. along West 21st Place, between South 49th Avenue ...[...]

Cancel anytime. A 51-year-old Bellevue man died early Monday after being struck by a passing vehicle on Interstate 80 near Council Bluffs. Michael Ponciano was pronounced dead at the scene ...[...]

The Illinois State Police is investigating that occurred at 12:41 a.m. Monday on Interstate 80 westbound near Minooka Road after a semi hit ... that it identified the man as Kieth R. Oswald, 58, ...[...]

Following a two-day trial, a jury convicted 73-year-old Bruce Mendenhall of murder in the killing of Carma Purpura, whose body was found on the side of a highway in Barren County, Kentucky in 2011 ...[...]

A bicyclist was struck by a CTA Pink Line train Wednesday in Cicero, leading to traffic congestion and impacted train service, Cicero spokesperson Ray Hanania said.[...]

A semi crash Wednesday on Interstate 74 near Congerville has closed part of that highway, the state police said. The crash occurred at approximately 2:20 p.m. near mile marker 115, said Trooper Shafer ...[...]

The crash happened around 2:20 p.m. at milemarker 115 in the westbound lanes of I-74 near Congerville in Woodford County. Real-time traffic can be found here.[...]

A bicyclist was struck by a CTA Pink Line train Wednesday in Cicero, leading to traffic congestion and impacted train service, Cicero spokesperson Ray Hanania said.[...]

Looked like smoke ahead, multiple police, appears firetruck stuck off shoulder on its way to support, tow truck arrived[...]

Maroon suv accident with semi on University St. Looking for witnesses who may have been at the accident.[...]

I 355 crash by lake on oct 24.. stop all traffic..this sight sucks.. no report of it... u call this an accident site..u could not find an accident if it hit you... stupid dump truck[...]

TRAFFIC AT STAND STILL, cops and fire trucks everywhere [...]

I-70 west bound, east of Effingham exit. I see the back of the car in front of me - 45 + minutes now - no where to go - stuck in one lane of I-70. East bound cars/trucks whizzing by.[...]

Greyhound bus Into the back of a semi truck trailer. Multiple helicopters landing on the interstate. [...]

3 helicopters landing on interstate. Semi truck and two rolled cars[...]

Cant see anything, stuck in traffic for over an hour. 2 truckers have told us its an accident. [...]

Tow truck just pulled away with a pickup[...]

Accident ambulance 3 tow trucks for semis have passed by. Standstill starting ~5:00pm[...]

I've been at a stand still moving only a few feet for an entire hour. I guess there has been a semi accident involving contaminants. [...]

I haven't seen anything other than the truck idling in the lane next to me, and the dude in front of me just made a uturn.[...]

Traffic has been stopped for 3+ hours as of 12:30. It looks like they've brought in equipment to pull a semi and at least 2 HP cars went by on the shoulder with lights but no sirens.[...]

Traffic moving on US 40, no, Traffic is moving and semi's sitting still[...]

I70 eastbound- at least 3 semis laying in the field burnt to a crisp. Wreckers and state troopers where everywhere. 170 westbound- no accidents but the road merges to one lane and people are stupid so its going between standstill and 20mph drivi[...]

Standstill traffic, firetruck & police passed bye 25 minutes ago.[...]

Cant see anything - major accident assumed. Several fire trucks, ambulances and EMTs along with police have gone by. Been in stand still traffic for half an hour[...]

At least 3 vehicle crash. Truck looks bad. Someone taken by ambulance [...]

Semi truck on fire in west bound lane of I70[...]

Small SUV work truck smashes it's a backup semi truck possibly killing the driver of the small truck traffic from downtown to at least Harlem avenue closed 3 lanes[...]

Been at a standstill for over 4 hours due to 4 semi collision. Started at 1130 am and at 1631 still stopped [...]

I55 SOUTH BOUND. OUTSIDE LINCOLN . SEMI BLOCKING BOTH LANES. CAUSING TRAFFIC JAM . BEST TO EXIT AT ATLANTA AND FIND ALTERNARIVE ROUTES[...]

South bound I55 north of Lincoln on second bridge/over pass semi is bl9cking both lanes [...]

Car rammed into the back of semi trailer on I-55 n [...]

single vehicle accident, semi flipped on side[...]