One person is dead and three others are injured, including an infant, after a head-on collision of two vehicles on North Allen Road and West Altorfer Drive in Peoria.
Peoria firefighter and paramedic crews responded to the scene at 9:19 p.m. Thursday and found a mid-sized sedan and an SUV had collided in the southbound lane of Allen Road at the intersection of Altorfer Drive.
The sedan spun off the road with three passengers inside, and the SUV with one passenger was still in the southbound lane. Both vehicles sustained major front-end damage.
The driver of the sedan was deceased when first responders arrived, said authorities, and another passenger in the rear was extricated by the “jaws of life” hydraulic cutters within five minutes, and suffered critical injuries. The infant was already retrieved by bystanders through a window when crews arrived.
The driver of the SUV was pulled from the vehicle by firefighter personnel with critical injuries. The two adults with critical injuries and the infant with minor injuries were all transported to a local trauma center.
Crews remained on scene to extricate the deceased driver from the sedan and assist the coroner for an hour after the incident.
The cause of the accident remains under investigation.