{"id":11888,"date":"2023-05-18T03:39:40","date_gmt":"2023-05-18T08:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=11888"},"modified":"2023-05-18T03:39:56","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T08:39:56","slug":"death-toll-from-blinding-may-1-dust-storm-crashes-in-illinois-rises-to-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=11888","title":{"rendered":"Death toll from blinding May 1 dust storm crashes in Illinois rises to 8"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The death toll from numerous crashes on Interstate 55 that occurred amid a blinding May 1 dust storm has risen to eight, a coroner said Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ruth Rau, 81, of Sorento, who was a passenger in a car that crashed in the dust storm, died of blunt force injuries Tuesday night at a Springfield hospital, Sangamon County Coroner Jim Allmon said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The crashes involved a total of 72 vehicles, with at least 37 people taken to hospitals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">High winds had kicked up dangerous clouds of blinding dust off farm fields, police have said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The crashes closed I-55 in both directions in Montgomery County, 75 miles (120 kilometers) north of St. Louis. Gov. J.B. Pritzker described the scene as horrific.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Winds at the time were gusting between 35 mph (56 kph) and 45 mph (74 kph), the National Weather Service said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/news\/2023\/05\/17\/death-toll-from-blinding-dust-storm-crashes-in-illinois-rises-to-8\/\">News4jax<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The death toll from numerous crashes on Interstate 55 that occurred amid a blinding May 1 dust storm has risen to eight, a coroner said Wednesday. Ruth Rau, 81, of Sorento, who was a passenger in a car that crashed in the dust storm, died of blunt force injuries Tuesday night at a Springfield hospital, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":11889,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1154],"tags":[4633,5297,6990,1708,3067],"class_list":["post-11888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-accident","tag-death-toll","tag-dust-storm-blinding","tag-illinois","tag-rise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11890,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11888\/revisions\/11890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}