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MACHESNEY PARK, Ill. — The Harlem-Roscoe Fire Dept was dispatched on Wednesday, April 17, after injuries were reported from two semi trucks that crashed on the I-90 near Machesney Park about 7 miles north of Rockford Illinois.

Photo by Harlem-Roscoe Fire Photographer Sheryl Drost

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FRANKFORT, Ill. — A semi truck overturned in Frankfort, Illinois, this morning after the big rig collided with a car and rolled over into a ditch on the I-80, while the car remained upright on the pavement.

On March 19, 2013 a semi truck rolled over into a ditch after crashing with a passenger vehicle on the westbound I-80 in Frankfort, IL Photo credit: Nick Swedberg

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MARINE, IL – A motorist was killed in a fatal head-on semi truck accident in Marine, IL on Thursday, January 12, 2012.

View facing north on Illinois Route 4 just south of Weber Road (on the right) where a motorist was killed in a fatal head-on collision with a semi truck on January 12, 2012.

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HARTFORD, IL – A 61-year old man was killed on October 11, 2011 when the pickup truck he was driving rear-ended a semi truck in Hartford, IL.

Scene at the entry gate of the ConocoPhillips refinery in Hartford, IL where a 61 year-old man driving a red pickup truck rear-ended an 18 wheeler and was killed on Tuesday, October 11, 2011.

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GLENWOOD, IL – A woman was killed when her vehicle was struck head-on by an 18 wheeler truck on Route 394 in Glenwood, IL on September 2, 2011.

A semi truck crashes head-on into a Ford SUV on Highway 394 in Glenwood, IL on September 2, 2011 shutting down traffic for hours. The vehicle burst into flames, trapping and killing the driver.

Glenwood is located in in Cook County, Illinois in the northeastern part of the state about 28 miles south of Chicago. ... Read More

CHICAGO, IL – A semi truck driver was killed on Wednesday night, Aug 24, in a six vehicle collision in Highland Park, Illinois. Highland Park is a suburb located about 27 miles northwest of Chicago and about 17 miles northeast of Arlington Heights.

Accident scene following a six-vehicle semi truck accident in Highland Park, IL where a big rig driver was killed on Wednesday, August 24, 2011. Photo credit: FOX Chicago News

The accident happened around 10:30 p.m. Wednesday evening at U.S. Route 41 and Half Day Road  and involved four cars and two semi-trucks where one of the truck drivers died at the scene. ... Read More

EAST ST. LOUIS, IL – A tractor trailer truck flipped over and burst into flames Monday morning on an Illinois highway. The roll over accident happened on Interstate 64 in East St Louis, IL. The area is in the south-central section of the state on the Missouri border in the St. Louis, MO metro region, 135 miles east of Jefferson City, MO and 295 miles southwest of Chicago, IL.

When the tractor truck rolled the impact caused one of the diesel fuel tanks to explode into flames.

At around 9:15 a.m. 35 year old Ladon Trigg of St. Louis, MO was driving a 2001 Freightliner tractor trailer truck loaded with garbage east on Interstate 64. As he neared the vicinity of Ninth Street, just east of the split with I-55 and 70, he apparently went into a curve at a high rate of speed and lost control of his truck… ... Read More