One person is dead and another critically injured after a wrong-way driver struck another vehicle head on Friday evening.
A driver was headed north in the southbound lanes of Interstate 155 at the Broadway exit south of Morton around 6:40 p.m. when they struck the other vehicle.
Tazewell County Coroner Charles Hanley pronounced the driver of the wrong-way vehicle dead on the scene. The driver in the second vehicle was transported to a Peoria hospital with life-threatening injuries.
Release of the deceased driver's name is pending family notification.
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