'Multiple fatalities' on I-55 in central Illinois after crashes resulting from windstorm
DIVERNON, Ill. -- A windstorm in south-central Illinois kicked up dangerous clouds of blinding dust off farm fields Monday, causing numerous crashes and killing at least six people on Interstate 55, police said.
Starrick told reporters that it was a spring version of a"whiteout situation" typically seen in winter snowstorms. by signing up you agree to our terms of service Winds at the time were gusting between 35 mph and 45 mph, the National Weather Service said.
Nathan Cormier captured video of the scene. He was able to slow down just in time to avoid being hit by two cars around him. James Auten, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service bureau in downstate Lincoln, said the crashes were the result of"dust storm" that dropped visibility to"zero" along the interstate.
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