A motorist was injured after losing control of his pick-up truck and smashing into a guardrail on eastbound Interstate 80 in Joliet this morning, causing two semi trucks and another truck to collide.
The pick-up crashed at 5:23 a.m. on eastbound I-80, just east of Center Street and west of the Des Plaines River Bridge, Illinois State Police said.
After the pick-up crashed, two semis and another pick-up collided, a state police dispatcher said. State police Sgt. Scott Angus said one of the semis involved was a UPS vehicle.
The driver of the first pick-up truck to crash was taken to Provena St. Joseph Medical Center in Joliet with non-life-threatening injures, Angus said, adding that no one else was hospitalized after the crash.
I-80 was closed in both directions for about a half-hour. The eastbound lanes were fully reopened by 7:40 a.m., Angus said.
No citations had been issued as of 11 a.m. and the cause of the crash remained under investigation.
Angus did not know if citations would be issued.