FARMER CITY, IL – (Tim Mitchell, Champaign News Gazette. Please click on the link above to read the full story. Here is an excerpt below.)
Illinois State Police are mourning the loss of a trooper from Bellflower who died as a result of injuries he sustained in a crash Wednesday afternoon on Interstate 74 in DeWitt County.
ISP Director Leo Schmitz said Trooper Ryan Albin, 37, died about 8:45 p.m. Wednesday at Carle Hospital in Urbana, where he was airlifted to after the wreck. Schmitz said Albin had been with the state police since January 2006, and he and his K-9 partner, Biko, were assigned to District 6, based in Pontiac.
State police said the crash occurred around 3:10 p.m. on westbound I-74 near milepost 155, west of Farmer City. They said Trooper Albin’s squad car and a commercial vehicle were slowing down ahead of traffic approaching a construction zone when the commercial vehicle struck Trooper Albin’s vehicle. Trooper Albin’s K-9 partner was taken to the University of Illinois Veterinary Teaching Hospital and appears to have only minor injuries.
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