Five people died in an Illinois crash involving multiple vehicles, including a semitruck carrying ammonia, according to police. - Dreamstime/Dreamstime/TNS
A crash involving multiple vehicles — including a semitruck carrying ammonia — in south-central Illinois has killed “multiple people” and prompted the evacuation of parts of an Effingham County village, authorities said Saturday morning. The incident happened Friday night on Route 40 east of Teutopolis, just before 9 p.m. local time, Effingham County Sheriff Paul Kuhns told reporters during a Saturday news conference. Teutopolis is a village of around 1,600 people located 90 miles southeast of state capital Springfield. The incident caused “a large plume, cloud of anhydrous ammonia on the road...
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