MONROE COUNTY, IL — A Sandoval man was cited for failure to yield the right-of-way Monday morning on Illinois Route 3 in Monroe County after a truck collided with the mini-excavator he was operating.

23-year-old Colton Wood was traveling east across both northbound lanes of IL Route 3 in a construction zone when a truck, driven by 54-year-old William King of Marissa, was headed north on Route 3 and collided with the front loader bucket of the mini-excavator.

The crash was reported at 10:14am. Both Wood and King were transported with non-life-threatening injuring to an area hospital.