Authorities say a semitrailer heading the wrong way on an interstate in central Illinois collided head-on with a school bus carrying members of a girls high school basketball team, killing the driver of the truck and an adult on the bus. The truck driver was identified by police as a 34-year-old man from Iowa. His name was not immediately released. Illinois State Police say eight girls on the bus were injured in the head-on crash Wednesday night on Interstate 74 near Downs, about 115 miles southwest of Chicago. Police say the bus driver and a coach also were injured.

Police say preliminary reports indicate the truck was traveling eastbound in the westbound lanes. The bus was heading westbound. Normal West High School athletic director Stan Lewis told The (Bloomington) Pantagraph the junior varsity girls’ team was returning from a game. Lewis said later, that some junior varsity players also made the trip. Police say 72-year-old Charles Crabtree of Normal, Illinois, was the bus passenger who died. He was a volunteer with Normal West.