ICY ROADS THROUGHOUT ILLINOIS AND INDIANA CAUSE NUMEROUS CAR ACCIDENTS AND AT LEAST ONE FATALITY
Illinois State Police near Pesotum, Champaign County, Illinois, confirmed a motor vehicle accident on Interstate 74 did involve at least one fatality. The accident reportedly took place near mile marker 213.
Illinois State Police closed the westbound lanes of Interstate 74 as a result of the one-vehicle accident. The crash was just one among many on I-74, and numerous city, county and rural roads.
The Sheriff's Department in Vermilion County, Illinois reported that a number of cars were in ditches, but no serious injuries or problems had occurred by that time. Illinois State Police troopers reported as many as 10 crashes involving property damage and 50 reports of vehicles that had slid off the roadway and into the ditch in district 10 near Champaign.
The weather also succeeded in giving drivers in Indiana a few headaches earlier this morning.
Indiana State Police reported numerous slide-offs on I-74 and along Indiana Route 63 in Vermillion County, Indiana. The Vermillion County Sheriff¡¦s Department also responded to a couple slide-offs this morning, but no injuries were reported to be related to the accidents. Sheriff's departments in Fountain County and Warren County Indiana were not reporting any incidents as a reslt of the icy conditions.
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