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Head-On Collision Kills One On I-155 Between Morton And Tremont

WCBU | By Charlie Schlenker
Published February 7, 2020 at 8:56 PM CST
A northbound vehicle in the southbound lanes of I-155 hit another vehicle head on Friday evening, State Police said.
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A northbound vehicle in the southbound lanes of I-155 hit another vehicle head on Friday evening, State Police said.

State Police said Friday evening a wrong-way driver apparently caused a head-on fatal accident on Interstate 155 in Tazewell County. Troopers said the collision happened about 6:40 p.m. in the southbound lanes at Broadway Road between Morton and Tremont.

The Tazewell County Coroner has pronounced dead the driver of the vehicle that headed north in the southbound lanes. The driver of the other vehicle is at a Peoria hospital with life-threatening injuries, said troopers.

State police rerouted traffic away from 1-55 and onto Broadway Rd. for some hours.

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Charlie Schlenker
WGLT Senior Reporter Charlie Schlenker has spent more than three award-winning decades in radio. He lives in Normal with his family.
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