CHATHAM, Ill. (WICS/WRSP) — UPDATE:
A woman is fighting for her life and two people are dead after a semi-truck left the roadway, hit a guardrail, and crossed a median ditch on I-55 near exit 82.
Illinois State Police say it then continued into the southbound lanes facing the wrong direction until it became disabled across all lanes of southbound traffic.
We’re told a vehicle then crashed into the semi and a second vehicle crashed into it.
All three vehicles were then engulfed in flames.
The driver of the second vehicle, a pickup truck, was pronounced dead at the scene.
The man driving the other vehicle, a Ford Taurus, also died.
A female passenger in the Ford was taken to an area hospital with life-threatening injuries.
ISP says the driver of the semi was uninjured.
Sangamon County Coroner Jim Allmon says one of the people who died is a 66-year-old man from Lebanon, Illinois.
The other man who died has yet to be scientifically identified.
Their autopsies are scheduled for Tuesday.