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An Illinois man was killed in a one-vehicle accident in Rock County early Sunday.
Christopher Huggins, 20, of Rockford, Ill., was a passenger in a car driven by Devon Hurd, 19, of Machesny Park, Ill., when the vehicle slid on a gravel road in the Town of Avon around 2:25 a.m. Sunday, according to the Rock County Sheriff's Department. The car slid off the road and struck a grove of trees on the passenger side, heavily damaging the vehicle.
Huggins died at the scene. Hurd was taken to Mercy Hospital in Janesville, where he was treated for minor injuries.
Marilyn S. Clasen, 50, was killed in a three-vehicle crash about 6:57 a.m. Monday in the first block of Plum Street, officials said. Clasen, of the 1500 block of Grand Avenue in Edwardsville, who drove a 2002 Chrysler Town and Country minivan, died at the scene of head and neck injuries even though she was wearing a seat belt and the air bags deployed, according to the Madison County coroner's office. Police said the driver of a 2000 Ford SUV, Michael R. Heinemeier, 23, of the 200 block of Magnolia Street in Edwardsville, was taken to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
Two people were airlifted to the hospital after a multi-vehicle wreck in St. Clair County, Ill. on Tuesday. According to police, two men were in a vehicle heading southbound on Ill. Route 4 near Jefferson when the driver lost control, overcorrected and slammed head-on into a car heading the opposite direction. The driver of the first vehicle and a woman driving the other car were airlifted to the hospital. The other male passenger was taken to a Belleville hospital before being transfered to a hospital in St. Louis. All three victims are in critical condition.
Authorities in southern Illinois' Jackson County say one person was killed and several others injured in a weekend crash of an off-road vehicle.
Authorities say nine people were in the vehicle at the time of the wreck shortly after 7 p.m. Sunday near Ava. The passengers included seven children, ranging in age from 2 to 14 years old.
Investigators say the 21-year-old driver, Brian Modglin, attempted a sharp turn and lost control of the vehicle, which then overturned.
Modglin later died at a Murphysboro hospital.
Cook County prosecutors say the victim of a hit-and-run crash in West Town Saturday was dragged by a man he was trying to stop from driving because he was too drunk to operate a vehicle.
Shane Stokowski was drinking in the same bar as Timothy McShane, and when McShane got up to leave, Stokowski followed him out to the parking lot, according to prosecutors.
Stokowski went up to the McShane's SUV and leaned into the driver’s side window in an apparent attempt to stop McShane from driving away, the Chicago Sun-Times is reporting.
At least seven people were injured in a four-car crash early Thursday in the West Town neighborhood on the North Side.
About 1:30 a.m., a 29-year-old man was driving eastbound in the 1500 block of West Chicago Avenue “at a high rate of speed” when it rear-ended another car and caused a domino-effect crash, damaging two more cars, police said.
It appeared three sedans and an SUV were damaged.
Seven people were transported to area hospitals, a Fire Media Affairs spokesman said.