A 46-year-old Homer man died this morning, apparently from a medical problem that happened as he drove his pickup truck on Illinois 49, hitting three parked cars.
Champaign County sheriff’s Lt. Brian Mennenga said John Mike Cummins was taken to Carle Hospital following the accident, which happened about 12:45 a.m. on Main Street near First Street in the heart of Homer.
He died at 1:52 a.m. in Carle’s emergency department, according to Coroner Duane Northrup. An autopsy is scheduled for Thursday.
Mennenga said Mr. Cummins and his passsenger, a fellow firefighter, had been out on a call south of Homer about 11:45 p.m. Tuesday involving a 27-year-old Allerton woman whose sport utility vehicle went off the side of a county road, hit an embankment and overturned. She was not seriously injured.