(WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- A West Frankfort man has been cited after a crash with an Illinois State Police trooper Tuesday.
The incident occurred at 11:16 a.m. when officers were investigating a two-vehicle traffic crash involving an Illinois State Police trooper’s squad car on Interstate 57 southbound near Milepost 56, north of Marion in Williamson County.
The trooper was stationary with the emergency vehicle lights on, according a news release from ISP.
The trooper was finishing an inspection on a truck tractor semi-trailer when a Dodge Durango, traveling southbound, failed to move over and sideswiped the driver’s side mirror and door of the ISP squad car.
The trooper was inside of the squad car at the time of the crash, but was uninjured. The driver of the Durango, Lucas M. Williams of West Frankfort, IL, was also uninjured. Williams was issued a citation for Scott’s Law-Improper Passing of an Emergency Vehicle.
This is the tenth incident so far this year involving Scott's Law.
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