DALE TOWNSHIP, IL (WKZO AM/FM) – 43-year-old man from Kalamazoo has died after a crash between a car and a semi tractor trailer in central Illinois Tuesday.
Illinois State Police responded to the crash around 9:50 p.m. on Interstate 55 near Bloomington.
They say Rickey M. Washington Jr. of Kalamazoo was in a car that had stalled in the right lane on I-55 southbound at milepost 154. He had turned his hazard lights on. A semi tractor trailer going southbound hit the rear of his vehicle.
Washington was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash. The semi driver was taken to a local hospital with minor injuries, and the semi passenger was uninjured.
(information provided by WMBD, Peoria, IL)
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