A man was killed yesterday morning while driving his pickup truck on southbound Illinois 1. Authorities don’t know how or why, but his truck ended up in the northbound, colliding with an oncoming tractor trailer. The driver of the pickup truck, whose name has yet to be released, died at the scene. The tractor trailer’s… Read More

Just before 8 am on Wednesday, May 25, 2016, a teen girl was hit by an SUV while walking to Centennial High School. According to police, the girl is around 14 or 15 years old, and was struck by the SUV when she ran across the middle of the street with friends without using a… Read More

A single-vehicle accident on Interstate 57 in Kankakee County took the lives of three men, while a fourth passenger remains severely injured. Police were called to the scene of the wreck at 6:15 am on Monday after a witness called for help. According to accident reports, the vehicle landed in a culvert, pinning two men inside… Read More

In Urbana last Monday, three individuals were sent to the hospital after their vehicle crashed into a power pole. The car accident occurred on Oaks Road about half a mile west of Highcross Road. The accident occurred at 4:34 in the afternoon. Regional energy company, Ameren, was present at the scene of the accident to… Read More

A Valentine’s Day snowstorm was responsible for a number of car accidents on I-74 in what turned out to be the fifth-highest snowfall ever recorded on February 14 in the county. According to Illinois State Climatologist Jim Angel, the Champaign area got around 2 inches of snow. The Valentine’s Day record, set in 2007, was… Read More

An accident occurred around 7:21 p.m. on Wednesday, October 28 in which the driver of a van lost control of the vehicle on Interstate 57. The van flipped several times before eventually coming to rest on its roof in a pond just east of the highway. According to police reports, there were nine occupants in… Read More

None of the people involved in a three-vehicle accident on Friday sustained injuries that are life-threatening, as reported by The News-Gazette.com. There were two people in each of the vehicles and everyone was wearing their seat belt at the time of the crash. Four people were taken to the hospital by ambulance for non-life-threatening injuries,… Read More

A pedestrian was struck by a vehicle at approximately 10:17 Friday night in front of the Farm and Fleet store on North Cunningham Avenue in Urbana and later died of his injuries after being taken to Carle Foundation Hospital. The vehicle operator, 64-year-old Sumie Metz, was driving south when she suddenly struck 43-year-old Tyrone Eugene… Read More

Westville Police Chief David Booe stated that it was possible that a medical issue caused a driver to lose control of her vehicle before hitting bystanders at the Westville Labor Day parade, as reported by The News-Gazette. The vehicle has been impounded by the police for mechanical issues. Booe reported that a total of nine people—some of… Read More

Two women who have yet to be identified by police were struck while crossing the street in a crosswalk yesterday at approximately 3:40 pm. According to official reports, the women were walking east when a vehicle that was also traveling east and attempting to turn south at the same intersection struck both women. Both pedestrians… Read More