A man was killed and a woman injured Wednesday when two semitrailers crashed heading south on the Tri-State Tollway near southwest suburban Countryside, according to Illinois State Police.

       A 68-year-old man from Montgomery was killed around 1:45 a.m. Wednesday when his truck tractor struck the rear of another truck stopped for road construction near Fifth Avenue in Countryside on Interstate 294 south, according to a state police news release. The driver of the second truck tractor, a 54-year-old woman from Pennsylvania, was taken to a hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening, police said.

       The 68-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. Police did not release information on the cause of the crash.

       All lanes of I-294 heading south were closed around 2 a.m. Wednesday, but reopened just before 7 a.m., police said.

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