Illinois Truck Accidents

On Aug. 24, 2024, a semi-trailer truck owned by Demaree Trucking, LLC, was hit by another semi on Interstate 57 in eastern Illinois, causing the truck and its cargo of 67 cows to flip over onto the ...[...]

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 ...[...]

A pedestrian was struck and killed by a vehicle in Freeburg at 10:29 p.m. on Tuesday, January 28, 2025, according to the Illinois State ...[...]

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 ...[...]

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[...]