UPDATED: 2 hospitalized in rural McLean County crash

Posted on May 26, 2016
Police car
Police are investigating a crash in rural Bellflower. (Photo courtesy Flickr/DavidsonScott15)

By Eric Stock

BELLFLOWER – McLean County Sheriff’s Police say one of two people who were hospitalized in a crash in rural Bellflower on Wednesday is out of the hospital.

Police say the female passenger in the one-vehicle rollover crash was rushed by ambulance to Advocate BroMenn Medical Center in Normal, where they were treated and released.

The driver, Jake Loftus, 24, of LeRoy, was flown to Carle Hospital in Champaign, where his condition is not available. Police are still trying to determine what caused the crash. It happened at about 10:15 p.m. near the intersection County Road 3600 East 400 North roads west of Bellflower.

LeRoy Police assisted at the crash scene.

Eric Stock can be reached at [email protected].

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