Five people were killed and five were critically injured when a semitruck carrying anhydrous ammonia crashed in central Illinois
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Effingham County Coroner Kim Rhodes said the five dead included three from the same family — one adult and two children under 12. The other two were adult motorists from out of state, Rhodes said. Additionally, five people were airlifted to area hospitals, their conditions unknown.Emergency crews worked overnight Saturday trying to control the plume from the leak and struggled to get near the crash site.
The National Transportation Safety Board said Saturday it will review the crash, spokesperson Jennifer Gabris told The Associated Press. “'T-Town' is a tight-knit community,” Hartke said. “Many people have sons and daughters, aunts and uncles within five or six miles of town.” “It’s terrible. It’s bad stuff if you are involved in breathing it, especially because it gets in your airways, in your lungs and it burns,” Kuhns said.
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