Peoria County coroner identifies high school student who died in crash near Chillicothe
A 16-year-old died and another person was injured Tuesday after a two-vehicle crash on Illinois Route 29, north of Chillicothe.
Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood identified Devin S. Oltman of Sparland as the person killed in the crash. Oltman, a sophomore at Illinois Valley Central High School, was pronounced dead at 8:40 a.m. at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center in Peoria. He died of multiple blunt-force trauma injuries, the Coroner's Office said.
Illinois State Police said at approximately 7:20 a.m., they were called to Illinois 29 at Hardscrabble Road for a report of a two-vehicle crash. Troopers found the drivers of both vehicles injured at the scene. Emergency medical services transported the two of them to area hospitals, where Oltman was pronounced dead.
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The accident forced sections of Route 29 in both directions to close for almost four hours, only reopening at 11:15 a.m. after the scene had been cleared. The cause of the crash remains under investigation by ISP.
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