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Police in southern Illinois' West Frankfort says a vehicle has struck and killed a 4-year-old boy.
Authorities say Logan Adams died after the accident about 4:30 p.m. Sunday.
Police chief Shawn Talluto says Adams was among seven children on the road, and that all of them dispersed to both sides of the street when the car approached. But as the vehicle passed while traveling at 3 miles per hour, Adams went back onto the road and was hit.
The driver has not been publicly identified.
A Pecatonica man is dead after a 5 vehicle crash on I-39.
Police are investigating the death of a woman from Cahokia after she crashed her vehicle Saturday afternoon. Authorities say Brittany Allred, 25, was driving northbound on North Liberty Road in Jarvis Township near Troy, Illinois when her Ford Explorer veered off the road and hit an embankment, causing the vehicle to roll over multiple times. Police have not determined how Allred lost control of her vehicle, but they do say she was not wearing a seat belt and was ejected from the vehicle. She suffered blunt force trauma to her head, chest, and abdomen.
Three men and a woman were killed in an overnight traffic crash on the city's Northwest Side, according to authorities.
The crash happened about 3 a.m. in the 2600 block of North Narragansett Avenue in the city's Montclare neighborhood.
As of about 5 a.m., the Cook County medical examiner's office had not been notified of the deaths.
Police said five people were in a car traveling fast on Narragansett Avenue when it hit a concrete wall.
A person struck by a Chicago Transit Authority Orange Line train on Tuesday morning has been identified as a man from the city's south side.
Robert Becker, of the 4700 block of South Ada Street, was pronounced dead after being hit by a southbound CTA train near the Ashland station at about 8:40 a.m.
Service was temporarily suspended between Western and Halsted as a result of the crash.
Illinois police are asking for the public’s help after a woman was killed in an apparent hit-and-run wreck early Sunday morning.
Authorities say 23-year-old Lana Albert was walking in and out of traffic on Old US 50 west of Breese, Ill. around 2:15 a.m. when she was struck by a vehicle.
She was pronounced dead at the scene.
Albert's father tells News 4 she was living in Edwardsville working as a dental assistant. She was originally from Odin, Ill.
Police have not released a description of the vehicle.
COLLINSVILLE, Illinois – A Collinsville man died Wednesday night after being hit by a car.
Collinsville Police Lt. Todd Link said officers responded to a man hit in the 2000 block of Vandalia Street.
Paramedics airlifted Joe Merrifield, 69, to an area hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.
The driver of the car, who has not yet been identified, has cooperated with police and no charges have yet been issued.
The incident continues to be investigated.
A Rolling Meadows woman was killed Tuesday night when the truck she was driving crashed into a median in the northwest suburb.
Tiffany Ensalaco, 34, was driving a blue 1994 Ford pickup southbound on Illinois Route 53 south of Kirchoff Road in Rolling Meadows just after 7 p.m., when she lost control of the vehicle and it drifted across the road into a concrete median, according to police and the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office.
She was ejected from the pickup onto the northbound shoulder of Route 53, Illinois State Police said.