MASSAC COUNTY — Illinois State Police Tuesday afternoon released the names of the three people killed in that eight-vehicle, chain reaction crash Sunday on westbound I-24 in Metropolis.

They are 56-year-old Lisa D. Earnest of Vandalia and 71-year-old James F. Donnelly and 75-year-old Marilyn J. Donnelly, both of Bellevue, Nebraska.

According to Illinois State Police, troopers responded to investigate the crash at about 12:40 p.m. Of the 13 people involved, three were fatalities, six were taken to area hospitals due to injury and four indicated no injury. Seven of the vehicles were stopped in traffic on I-24 westbound near milepost 37. The 2007 Volvo Truck Tractor/Semi-Trailer, driven by a 57-year-old man from Mississippi, failed to slow down and struck the line of vehicles resulting in a chain reaction crash.