Joliet police are investigating a crash Wednesday that involved a 58-year-old man from Orland Park that left one man dead and a 2-year-old child seriously injured.

Police found the man from Orland Park was driving a Volvo semi tractor-trailer on Dollar Tree Lane, trying to turn left to travel north on Illinois Route 53, when it crossed into the path of a Dodge Dart traveling south on the highway. The sedan struck the truck and “came to rest beneath it,” Joliet police said.

The driver of the Dodge, a 40-year-old man from Wilmington, was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. A 2-year-old boy secured in a child safety seat in the back seat was removed from the vehicle and brought to St. Joseph Medical Center, where police said he is in serious condition.

Police said the roadway was cl

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