EFFINGHAM, Ill.  – Authorities say a tractor-trailer driver failed to slow down in time and crashed into stopped traffic in an Illinois construction zone, killing three people from Missouri.  Three others were hurt.

The four-vehicle crash happened Saturday along eastbound Interstate 70 near Effingham.

Police on Sunday announced preliminary charges against the truck driver 59-year-old Asllan Pino of the Detroit suburb of Chesterfield Township of failure to reduce speed to avoid a crash.