CHAMPAIGN COUNTY, Ill. (WAND) - Authorities said two drivers lost their lives in a Thursday night crash near Fisher.Â
Champaign County Coroner Duane Northrup said the crash happened at about 8:22 p.m. on Illinois Route 47. The crash site was about a half-mile north of Illinois Route 136 west of Fisher. The two people who died were identified as 50-year-old Christopher J. Lonis of Aurora and 78-year-old Gordon W. Bane Jr. of Downs.Â
Both men were pronounced dead at the scene. Preliminary autopsy results showed they both died from blunt force injuries received in the crash.Â
Lonis and Bane were the drivers and only occupants of their vehicles.Â
Illinois State Police and the coroner's office are investigating the crash and the circumstances leading up to it.Â
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