SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – One Illinois State Trooper was injured in a Monday afternoon crash with a semi truck in an incident that violates the Move-Over law. It was the third Move Over law crash of the day.
The fourth incident was a weather-related crash.
According to a press release from the Illinois State Police (ISP), the injury crash occurred on Monday afternoon around 4:45 p.m. on Interstate 57 northbound at milepost 295 in Ashkum, Iroquois County.
ISP stated that one of its troopers with the Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Bureau was stopped on the shoulder with their emergency lights activated, assisting a motorist.
A semi truck failed to move over and struck the rear end of the squad car, pushing it forward into the vehicle that the trooper was assisting.
ISP says the trooper was transported to a hospital with serious, but non-life-threatening injuries. Three other occupants involved in the crash were also transported with injuries. The truck driver was cited for a Move Over Law violation.
The first of the three Move Over crashes occurred at around 4 a.m. on Interstate 80 westbound near Houbolt Road in Will County, according to the ISP’s press release.
ISP stated a trooper was stopped behind a crash scene with their emergency lights activated when a vehicle failed to move over and side-swiped the driver’s side of the trooper’s squad car. The trooper was inside of his vehicle, but was uninjured. The driver of the striking vehicle was cited for a Move Over Law violation.
The second crash of the day occurred approximately 10 minutes later while another trooper was assisting with the first Move-Over-related crash on I-80. Another vehicle passing the crash scene failed to move over and struck one of the vehicles in the initial crash, which then got pushed into the second trooper’s squad car. No injuries were reported. That driver was also cited for a Move Over Law violation.
ISP experienced an additional squad car crash due to weather-related roadway conditions.
The crash occurred at approximately 4:25 p.m. on I-88 westbound near milepost 23.5 in Whiteside County.
ISP stated that one of its troopers was stopped with their emergency lights activated, assisting a motorist that slid off the roadway. A sedan reportedly lost control and struck the rear of the squad car with the trooper inside of the squad car at the time of the crash and suffered serious, but non-life-threatening injuries.
The crash investigation is ongoing, and charges may potentially be filed with the State’s Attorney’s Office pending the outcome of the investigation.
So far in 2026, ISP says the agency has suffered seven Move Over Law-related crashes. In 2025, ISP reported 15 Move Over Law-related crashes with seven troopers injured. In 2024, ISP had 27 Move Over Law-related crashes with 12 injuries and one death.
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