RANTOUL, Ill. (WICS) — On January 16, at approximately 10:23 p.m., METCAD received a report of a female walking south in the southbound lanes of Liberty Avenue. The caller reported the female was wearing all dark clothing. As officers were responding, METCAD relayed information from a second caller reporting they had hit a pedestrian in the roadway.
Kristina M. Sherman, a 40-year-old female from Danville, Illinois was fatally injured after being struck by a motor vehicle on Liberty Avenue near Chandler Road in Rantoul.
Officers along with personnel from the Rantoul Fire Department arrived on scene and provided medical care until Kristina M. Sherman could be transported to Carle Foundation Hospital in Urbana, where she was later pronounced deceased…