WOODFORD COUNTY, Ill. – An Indiana woman is dead following a weekend accident in Woodford County.
Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood says Barbara Smith, 88, of New Haven, Indiana was taken to a Peoria hospital, where she was pronounced dead more than four hours after the crash, reported after noon Saturday on U.S. Highway 24.
Smith, Harwood says, was a passenger in one of two vehicles that collided head on near the intersection with County Road 1700 East.
Harwood says Smith died from multiple blunt force injuries and there will be no autopsy, but toxicology tests are pending.
Illinois State Police say Smith was one of eight people taken to hospitals or otherwise injured in the crash.
