2 Shreveport residents killed, 3 more injured in 2-vehicle wreck in Illinois

(KSLA/KFVS) — Two Shreveport residents had been killed and three extra, together with a toddler, had been harm in a two-vehicle crash in Jefferson County, Sick.

KSLA Information 12′s sister station KFVS studies that the wreck occurred about 1:18 a.m. Monday, Dec. 20 on northbound Interstate 57.

A truck-tractor/semi-trailer and a 2016 white Nissan SUV had been touring north on I-57 in a building space close to milepost 102.5 when the SUV “made contact” with the semi because the lanes merged from two to 1, in accordance with an Illinois State Police crash report.

Troopers stated the SUV left the highway and overturned a number of occasions.

Two passengers, a 67-year-old man and a 61-year-old girl, had been ejected from the SUV and later pronounced lifeless on the scene by the Jefferson County coroner.

The remaining occupants of the SUV — the 40-year-old man who was driving, a 41-year-old girl and a juvenile male — had been taken to an space hospital for remedy of their accidents.

The kid had crucial accidents that weren’t life-threatening and was handled on the scene earlier than being flown out of Mount Vernon and to St. Louis, in accordance with a Fb submit by Jefferson Fireplace Safety District 1.

They stated that the SUV’s driver was taken by ambulance to an space hospital and that the opposite grownup was handled on the scene, then taken by ambulance to an space hospital the place a helicopter was ready to take her to a St. Louis hospital.

Based on ISP, the semi left the scene.

The crash remains to be underneath investigation.

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