BREAKING: Multiple people are dead and dozens are injured after a dust storm caused a multiple vehicle pileup on an Illinois highway.
Six people were confirmed dead in a series of highway collisions Monday in rural Illinois that were blamed on a blinding dust storm, authorities said.
The collisions, which involved as many as 90 vehicles on Interstate 55 north of Farmersville just before 11 a.m., included separate pileups on the northbound and southbound sides, state police said. Involved in the collisions were two big rigs that had been on fire, roughly 28 other commercial vehicles and as many as 60 passenger vehicles, Starrick said.
"This is not uncommon," Starrick said."This has happened before in various parts of the state of Illinois."
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