Update: 2 hospitalized in Joliet I-55 crash involving semitrailer truck

A 60-year-old driver of a Freightliner and a 51-year-old driver of a passenger vehicle have been hospitalized following a two-vehicle crash on Interstate 55 in Joliet.

About 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday, troopers responded to a crash involving a passenger vehicle which rear ended a commercial vehicle in the southbound lanes of I-55 near milepost 257 in Joliet, according to Illinois State Police.

The two injured, taken to a hospital for injuries were a 51-year-old woman from Calumet City who was in a 2019 Buick Encore and a 60-year-old man from Dallas, Georgia, who in a 2014 Freightliner.

Both of them were the driver of their vehicles.

About 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, all lanes of I-55 near Route 30 was closed, with southbound traffic diverted off at Route 30.