Schaumburg woman identified after fatal car, semi crash in Sycamore Township

SYCAMORE TOWNSHIP - A Schaumburg woman has been identified by DeKalb County Sheriff’s officials after she died during a crash involving a car and two semi-trailer trucks along Peace Road in Sycamore Township Tuesday.

Sheeza Saleem, 26, of Schaumburg, was pronounced dead on the scene after a car she was driving, a silver Infiniti, crashed into a semi-trailer truck, with debris hitting a second semi during the incident around 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, according to a Wednesday news release from the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office.

Patrick W. Crowe, 59, of Batavia, who drove the semi which was struck, was also injured in the crash, according to the sheriff’s office.

The crash remains under investigation, said DeKalb County Sheriff Andy Sullivan Tuesday.

The crash also left two others injured.

First responders to the scene saw a heavily damaged silver Infiniti in the roadway and a semi-tractor truck in the ditch nearby, according to the sheriff’s office.

Peace Road was temporarily closed for several hours Tuesday between Route 64 and Freed Road near the Kishwaukee River as crews worked to clear the debris from the crash, which occurred on Peace Road south of Freed Road, Sullivan said.

“A passenger car was driving northbound on Peace Road and was eventually struck by a southbound semi-tractor trailer,” Sullivan said. “The semi was hauling beverages. There was another semi behind that was also struck by some debris.”

The woman, pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics and later identified as Saleem, was the driver of the car.

Two others – the driver of the semi-trailer struck directly by the car, later identified as Crowe, and a passenger in that semi - were taken to Northwestern Medicine Kishwaukee Hospital in DeKalb with non life-threatening injuries, Sullivan said. One was treated and released from the hospital, and the other remains under care.

“It appears at this time that the passenger car was passing vehicles on the right, lost control and then was struck,” Sullivan said Tuesday.

Sheriff’s officials remained on the scene for hours while crews worked to get the vehicles removed and the road cleaned. The roadway was cleared as of 6 p.m.

Officials from the Sycamore police and fire departments and the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office auxiliary assisted. No arrests were reported in the crash.

The crash remains under investigation by the sheriff’s office and the DeKalb County Coroner’s Office.