HOPEWELL, Ill. – A Hopewell man has died after a one-vehicle crash in Marshall County Tuesday afternoon.

The Marshall County Sheriff’s Office says 94-year-old Orville Schneider was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash.

Emergency personnel responded to the crash site just after 1:15 P.M. on Illinois Route 29, just south of Hopewell Estates.

The sheriff’s office says Schneider’s Chevy Silverado was northbound, left the roadway for unknown reasons, struck the end of a guardrail, and came to rest in an embankment east of the road.

Route 29 was closed for a few hours during the crash investigation.

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