{"id":9416,"date":"2025-09-09T13:45:39","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T18:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/news\/?p=9416"},"modified":"2025-09-09T13:45:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T18:45:39","slug":"semi-truck-driver-fatally-hit-by-box-truck-in-neoga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/news\/illinois-truck-accidents\/semi-truck-driver-fatally-hit-by-box-truck-in-neoga\/","title":{"rendered":"Semi-truck driver fatally hit by box truck in Neoga\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEOGA, IL \u2014 A 31-year-old male semi-truck driver lost his life after he was struck by a box truck on I-57 near milepost 172 Saturday, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wandtv.com\/news\/illinois\/man-killed-by-box-truck-on-side-of-i-57\/article_cf61ef79-6a7e-4fee-b5dc-61fd43e08345.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WAND TV<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Illinois State Police said the crash took place around 3:30 p.m. Preliminary details show that the semi-truck driver stopped on the right shoulder and filled up the truck with gas. Moments later, an oncoming box truck crashed into him, and the semi-truck driver died.<\/p>\n<p>Police confirmed that the box truck driver was charged with failure to reduce speed and improper lane usage.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities blocked off southbound I-57 from Neoga to Effingham for several hours for the clean-up process and reopened the area just before 10 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Police started an investigation.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/d\/u\/0\/embed?mid=1oB8_8n82CzauHY4NGd36BIV-IjhUyuE&amp;ehbc=2E312F&amp;noprof=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If your loved one died in a truck-related crash caused by a negligent driver, you most certainly deserve an opportunity to take legal action against them. By filing a lawsuit against them, you could have the chance to hold them accountable and, at the same time, achieve justice for your late loved one. Book a free consultation with our <a href=\"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Illinois truck accident lawyer<\/strong><\/a> by phone at <a href=\"tel:+18887745836\"><strong>(888) 774-5836<\/strong><\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/contact\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>online<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEOGA, IL \u2014 A 31-year-old male semi-truck driver lost his life after he was struck by a box truck on I-57 near milepost 172 Saturday, according to WAND TV. Illinois State Police said the crash took place around 3:30 p.m. Preliminary details show that the semi-truck driver stopped on the right shoulder and filled up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-illinois-truck-accidents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9416"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9421,"href":"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9416\/revisions\/9421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}