MARION, Ill. (AP) — Authorities say a man was killed and several other people injured during an Indiana freeway wreck involving a tractor-trailer and southern Illinois church’s van.
Investigators say 29-year-old Christopher Williams of Marion, Illinois, died at a hospital after the crash Tuesday in Indiana’s Posey County. WSIL-TV reports that Williams was a youth minister at Marion’s Livingstone Community Church where the other victims were members.
The church’s pastor, Bryce Parks, tells WSIL that the victims were returning from a mission trip to help a homeless shelter in Evansville, Indiana, when a tire failed on of their vehicles as they traveled on Interstate 64. That van then spun before the tractor-trailer became involved.
The medical statuses of the other victims were not immediately known Wednesday.
