PRINCEVILLE, Ill. – A Princeville man is dead after the car he was driving crossed traffic and hit another vehicle head-on.
Peoria County Coroner Jamie Harwood says Robert Renken, 66, was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash on Illinois Route 91 just north of Akron Road in rural Princeville.
Harwood says an autopsy confirms the cause of death as multiple blunt force trauma injuries. Toxicology results are pending.
Harwood says Renken’s vehicle somehow crossed the center line while traveling northbound on 91 and caused the crash around 7:30 p.m. Sunday.
The driver of the second vehicle was taken to a Peoria hospital in stable condition.
