{"id":9741,"date":"2025-10-06T08:29:51","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T13:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/news\/?p=9741"},"modified":"2025-10-06T08:54:32","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T13:54:32","slug":"one-dead-in-illinois-head-on-collision-involving-semi-truck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/news\/new-york-truck-accidents\/one-dead-in-illinois-head-on-collision-involving-semi-truck\/","title":{"rendered":"One Dead in Illinois Head-On Collision Involving Semi-Truck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SHELBYVILLE, IL &#8211; A head-on collision on Route 16 involving a semi-truck killed one person on Saturday morning, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wandtv.com\/news\/illinois\/1-dead-after-head-on-collision-near-shelbyville\/article_785e8ec9-233e-4a77-8886-39637799837b.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WAND News reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to Illinois State Police, the accident occurred near Shelby County Road North 2250 around 9 am. A 47-year-old man was headed eastbound when his vehicle drifted into the other lane, colliding head-on with the semi-truck.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the car was pronounced dead at the scene. The truck driver was taken to the hospital with minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The accident is under investigation.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/d\/u\/0\/embed?mid=1I0MY5xV_VgFeVh8vcXm_uqcMfjDoH9I&amp;ehbc=2E312F&amp;noprof=1\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve lost a loved one in a truck accident caused by someone else&#8217;s negligence, you don&#8217;t have to face it alone. The experienced Illinois truck accident lawyers at Truck Accident Lawyers LLC offer compassion, understanding, and aggressive advocacy as you seek justice for your loss. <a href=\"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/contact\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Contact us<\/a> online or call <a href=\"tel:(888)7745836\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(888) 774-5836<\/a> today for your free consultation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SHELBYVILLE, IL &#8211; A head-on collision on Route 16 involving a semi-truck killed one person on Saturday morning, WAND News reports. According to Illinois State Police, the accident occurred near Shelby County Road North 2250 around 9 am. A 47-year-old man was headed eastbound when his vehicle drifted into the other lane, colliding head-on with [&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":[46,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-illinois-truck-accidents","category-new-york-truck-accidents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9741","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=9741"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9750,"href":"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9741\/revisions\/9750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/truckaccidentlawyers.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}