![]() Socarras Quintero said the dust continued to blow ferociously as he checked on other motorists and emergency crews arrived. ![]() Louis to make deliveries for his custom frame company based in Elk Grove Village, said after his truck hit the vehicle in front of him, he exited and moved to the side of the road, then returned after the chain reaction of crashes ended behind him. ![]() Louis before Monday’s crashes, said after the vehicle he was in got into a crash, the only thing he could hear “was crash after crash after crash behind us.”ĭairon Socarras Quintero, 32, who was driving to St. Tom Thomas, 43, who was traveling south to St. “There’s no logic to saying that someone did this on purpose and they were somehow skirting some sort of regulation, but we’re going to. “It does not benefit a farmer to lose a bunch of topsoil, so they have no motivation to do something that would cause this,” Kelly said. State Police Division of Criminal Investigation officers responded initially to identify bodies and contact family members, but while their work continues, Kelly downplayed the notion of criminal charges and would not speculate on what they could be. Kelly said his investigators would try to determine whether nature was the only factor. Illinois’ 22.2 million acres (898,000 hectares) of land in production ranks it 4th in the nation. Department of Agriculture’s 2017 Land Use Practices Census, 29% of Prairie State cropland was no-till. Meteorologist Chuck Schaffer said the area where the crashes occurred is “very flat, very few trees.”įarmers in central Illinois, including Montgomery County, where the crashes occurred, are tilling fields and planting corn and soybeans, the region’s chief crops, said Emerson Nafziger, a professor emeritus in the Department of Crop Sciences at the University of Illinois’ Urbana-Champaign campus.Īccording to the U.S. Winds were gusting between 35 and 45 mph (56 and 74 kph), the National Weather Service said. “We have a lot of science that has to be done to see what we can determine,” Kelly said. Those investigators are very early in their inquiry and have a lot of evidence to review and people to interview as part of their probe. More than 40 troopers were sent to the scene, including members of the state police traffic crash reconstruction team, Kelly said. He said they were both adults but would not reveal their genders or other details. One victim was driving a blue Chrysler 300, and the other was in a Hyundai, its color unknown. Two of the six people killed remain unidentified, Kelly said, and state police were seeking tips from the public about their identity. Certainly dust storms happen, but it is not something that happens every day here in this part of Illinois or any part of Illinois,” Illinois State Police Director Brendan Kelly said at a news conference Tuesday. Louis and just south of the state capital of Springfield, came as high spring winds kicked up dust at a time when farmers are busy tilling or planting their fields, police said. Monday’s deadly and fiery crashes along a 2-mile stretch of Interstate 55 in central Illinois, 75 miles (120 kilometers) north of St. And when it was over, almost 40 people were injured and seven people were dead - at least two of them still unidentifiable. They slammed into one another, leaving them mangled or in some cases burned. ![]() As darkness enveloped them, some cars and trucks hurtling down the road put on their brakes others didn’t. The brown cloud’s intensity caked even the insides of vehicles in dirt. (AP) - Winds stirred up a wall of dust from farm fields that engulfed a stretch of busy interstate highway in a matter of minutes.
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