Illinois 49 and Homer Lake Road

Champaign & Springfield-Decatur, IL

Scott Doxtater, 33, Dorothy Doxtater, 62, killed, Otis Doxtater, Xiang Cheng, 19, Yuhan Zhang 22, seriously injured, all transported to hospitals, after a SUV and car collide near the intersection of Illinois 49 and Homer Lake Road in Homer.

Accident Date: 
Sat, 04/19/2014

Two Indiana residents were killed and three other people injured in a fiery two-vehicle crash north of Homer on Easter Sunday.

“This was by far the worst car fire I’ve been involved with in my 25 years of firefighting,” said Homer Fire Chief Don Happ.