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A car crash Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2018, spilled money across an Illinois highway. A stretch of Interstate 74 near Champaign was closed for about an hour as crews picked up the cash that police say came from video gambling machines. No one was seriously hurt.

Crash Scatters Cash Across Illinois Interstate

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Crash cash came from video-gambling terminals

MAHOMET — A two-vehicle crash about midday Tuesday left cash scattered across Interstate 74 near Mahomet.

State police said bills were spilled when a driver carrying the money for a company that operates video-gambling terminals lost control of his vehicle and crashed into another. The highway was closed for about an hour as crews cleaned up the cash, Trooper Tracy Lillard said.

The driver, who wasn’t identified, was eastbound on I-74 at milepost 176, about 2 miles east of Mahomet, at 11:38 a.m. Tuesday when he lost control of his black passenger car for unknown reasons, struck the right guardrail and spun out of control, hitting a Chevrolet Silverado with a flatbed trailer, Lillard said. Both of these cars ended up in the center median.

The driver of the black passenger car was charged with driving too fast for conditions.

To avoid the crash, another vehicle swerved and struck the right guardrail, Lillard said. That vehicle, a Ford SUV, landed in the right ditch, and the driver was taken to a local hospital for non-life-threatening injuries, Lillard said.

That driver was charged with driving while their license is revoked and operating a motor vehicle without insurance.

All three drivers were wearing seat belts, Lillard said. 

UPDATE, 1 p.m.:

MAHOMET — A two-vehicle crash just before noon Tuesday blocked eastbound Interstate 74 at milepost 176, about two miles east of Mahomet, according to state police.

The crash involved a Ford Escape and a pickup truck, state trooper Tracy Lillard said, and resulted in cash spilling onto the highway.

There were minor, non-life threatening injuries, Lillard said.

Traffic was blocked for about an hour, but is now clear.

SOURCE The News Gazette