Semi truck drives wrong way at high speed on I-80, Bureau County IL

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Reported: 09/03/2025 12:31 AM (PDT)

I-80, Illinois

A semi-truck is driving at a high speed the wrong way on I-80 in Illinois. It is traveling westbound in the eastbound lanes near milepost 11 and is on the right shoulder. Emergency services are responding due to the risk of a crash.

Audio|Source: Illinois State Police Troops 1,2,3,4,5

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Transcript:

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2nd2BI. The eastbound mouth was 13.

00:01

IEDE, eastbound mouth was 13.

00:03

There's a semi that went to the ditch.

00:04

Fire an EMS in row.

00:05

It's 202.104.

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In route from May, it's 19.

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Go to. Go to. 264 status

00:10

220 streling. Now that the semi is a raw driver, they're driving westbound in the eastbound lanes near milepost 11. They're on the right shoulder. It's a blue truck tractor van semi-trailer. Blue truck tractor van semi-trailer. Moving at a high rate of speed.

00:36

I'm on I-80 at milepost 11, westbound. This is a wrong way driver. I-80 westbound and eastbound lanes near milepost 11. This is a wrong way driver on the strip 2 in the eastbound lanes near milepost 11. Wrong way driver, I-80 westbound and eastbound lanes from milepost 11, 0237.

01:04

Blue truck tractor van semi-trailer, blue truck tractor van semi-trailer. It's on the right shoulder, traveling at a high rate of speed westbound in the eastbound lanes. Make sure in case, two, please, two, sterling, case he's and some four. I-80 passing milepost 10. You're pretty close by. Could you be en route? You said I-80, correct?

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Semi truck drives wrong way at high speed on I-80, Bureau County IL

A semi-truck is driving at a high speed the wrong way on I-80 in Illinois. It is traveling westbound in the eastbound lanes near milepost 11 and is on the right shoulder. Emergency services are responding due to the risk of a crash.

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