Coroner IDs metro-east man killed in fiery interstate crash

A 63-year-old man from Cottage Hills died in a fiery, two-vehicle crash on Interstate 55 in Collinsville Sunday, the Madison County coroner announced Tuesday.

Joseph Wayne Sands was identified as the victim, Coroner Nick Novacich said in a news release.

Sands was driving a 1992 Chevrolet S-10 pickup truck north on I-55 near milepost 8 and had slowed down in the lane of traffic early Sunday when his vehicle was rear-ended by a “box truck,” according to preliminary information cited in the news release…

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