Semi Overturns at Mason Wednesday

Details are available on a crash that occurred in Mason on Wednesday.

Illinois State Police reported that a truck tractor semi-trailer ran off Illinois Route 37 at State Street at 12:15pm. Troopers report that the driver of the rig suffered a medical emergency that caused the unit to run off the right side of the highway. The report indicates the driver, 21-year-old Blake C. Shultz of Tuscola, overcorrected and the rig came back onto the highway, across both lanes, and partially onto the shoulder. The driver then overcorrected to the right and the vehicle overturned. 

Shultz was transported for treatment of what troopers termed non life threatening injuries.