“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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