Update via WEEK TV:
McLean Unit 5 officials held a press conference on last night’s fatal bus crash on Interstate 74.
OSF HealthCare spokeswoman Shelli Dankoff said OSF Saint Francis Medical Center in Peoria received three patients. The driver of the semi truck was pronounced dead in the ER. Coach Steve Price suffered several broken bones, and is on the road to recovery, said the principal of Normal Community West High School in a morning press conference. Price is listed in fair condition.
The driver of the bus is in critical condition.
OSF Saint Joseph Medical Center in Bloomington received four students from the bus. All were treated and released.
Earlier…
Two adults are dead and at least seven people are hospitalized after an accident on I-74 near mile marker 137 Wednesday night in a head-on collision involving a semi and a Normal West High School Bus carrying the Girls JV Basketball team home from a game in Champaign.
Illinois State Police says the semi was driving in the wrong lane on I-74 when it collided with the bus head-on at mile marker 137. The team was coming home from an away game in Champaign at the time of the accident.
The dead have been identified as 72-year-old Charles Crabtree of Normal, a volunteer for the team, was riding on the bus when he died. The driver of the semi, an unidentified 34-year-old man from Iowa
OSF St. Francis in Peoria tells us three adults being treated at their facility. One person is in critical condition and two are listed as serious.
OSF St. Joseph’s in Bloomington is reporting 4 patients are being treated there at this time. They are all listed in good condition.
We are also told there are some patients from this crash at Advocate BroMenn Medical Center in Normal, but we have not been given a certain number of them as of yet.
Unit 5, via Facebook, is saying 11 people were on board and all of the students were taken to hospitals with non life-threatening injuries
The accident is under investigation. Police officers have a 7 mile area blocked off around the crash site.
More Details Coming….