PEORIA COUNTY, Ill. – Illinois State Police were called to westbound I-474 and Airport Road early Monday on reports of a commercial vehicle fire.

Troopers arrived just before 6 a.m., finding a Jeep had rear-ended another vehicle as traffic slowed down due to the fire.

31-year-old Jawain Gray, from Peoria, was cited for failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident.

The Peoria County Sheriff’s Office says another crash happened soon after that a few hundred yards back in the eastbound lanes where a car rear ended a pickup truck.

There were no injuries and no citations issued in that crash.

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