DECATUR, Ill. — The Illinois Secretary of State’s Office sent an investigator to the home of a 29-year-old Decatur man to take away his driver’s license after he was cited in two fatal wrecks within the past three months.

Andrew J. Johnson surrendered his license Friday night to the investigator who visited his home, according to a spokesman for the office Monday.

Police say Johnson was driving a grain semitruck struck by Tony and Karen Hable, both 57, on Nov. 11 in DeWitt County.

He was also driving a pickup truck in the Sept. 4 crash in Macon that killed 80-year-old Phil Jacobs of Pana, a former Herald & Review writer and photographer who died from his injuries eight days later.

Johnson was convicted Sept. 28 of failure to yield at an intersection in the first crash.

He faces the same charge in the second crash, as well as a citation for not wearing a seatbelt.

Members of the Jacobs family filed a lawsuit last month alleging that Johnson was negligent.