LEE COUNTY, IL : Two killed in auto accident near Paw Paw on Wednesday, 28th March 2018

Two Rockford residents, Ryan D. Lishman, 23, and Venus V. Jackson, 37, were killed March 24 in car versus semi accident on Route 30, just east of Johnson Road, in rural Paw Paw.

The Lee County Sheriff’s Department responded to the two-vehicle collision at 10:48 p.m. on March . According to their report, a semi driven by Dale Yardley, 65, of Shabbona, was eastbound on Route 30 when a westbound car drove into the eastbound lane and collided with the semi.

Both Lishman, who was driving, and Jackson, who was identified by the sheriff’s department as Lishman’s aunt, were pronounced dead at the scene of the accident. Yardley, driver of the semi, refused medical treatment.

The Lee County Sheriff’s Department was assisted at the scene by the Paw Paw Fire Department, Illinois State Police and the Lee County Coroner’s Office.

The accident remains under investigation. The names of the driver and passenger were initially withheld pending notification of the family.

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Two killed in auto accident near Paw Paw