Crash on I-74 delays morning traffic
By Steve Bauer
Wednesday July 9, 2008
Darrell Hoemann/The News-Gazette
A member of law enforcement looks over the site of an overturned tanker truck on Interstate 74 west of Interstate 57 Wednesday morning.
CHAMPAIGN – Westbound lanes on Interstate 74 were blocked west of Interstate 57 after a tanker truck overturned early today while trying to avoid another truck.
Illinois State Police Sgt. Bill Emery said a semitrailer truck driver, Edgar Haertling, 72, of Steeleville, tried to make a U-turn from the westbound lane at a highway turnaround at 3:22 a.m. today.
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