Crash news
Lake County Sheriff’s traffic crash investigators are looking into a fatal crash that occurred in unincorporated Antioch.
The Channahon Fire Protection District responded to a rollover crash on Front Street in Channahon on Sunday afternoon.
A Suzuki GSXR 1000 motorcycle, operated by a 19-year-old Joliet man, collided into a Nissan Rogue driven by a 19-year-old Romeoville woman in Joliet Thursday evening, according to Joliet police.
A 35-year-old Wheaton woman has died from injuries she suffered in a two-vehicle crash in Naperville, police said Thursday.
Lockport man is dead following a crash in Lockport, according to Will County Coroner Laurie Summers.
According to Mendota police, Jonas W. Hobbs, 45, was injured when the pickup he was driving crashed through a guard rail at 12th Street and Augustine Avenue and ultimately came to rest on its driver’s side in a creek.
Sept. 14 crash among 58 investigations aided by license plate reader cameras installed in August in Lee County.
Brian McPhillips, 32, of Rock Falls, who police initially identified as a Sterling resident, has been cited with unsafe passing and failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident, according Whiteside County court documents.
Brian McPhillips, 32, of Sterling was driving east on U.S. 30 near Riverdale Road when he attempted to pass an eastbound semi, met a westbound semi and collided with both, according to a Whiteside County Sheriff’s Office news release.
When deputies arrived at the scene they discovered the driver, Angela Appel, 48, of Thomson, was pinned in the vehicle, according to a news release.
All lanes on Route 6 (Channahon Road) in Joliet are closed between Hollywood Road and Terry Drive Friday morning as Joliet police investigate two crashes.
Sheriff: Three children under the age of 5 died Monday after the Jeep they were in was rear-ended by a truck on four-lane U.S. 30 in Clinton County, Iowa.
A Morris man died after losing control of his motorcycle when he possibly came in contact with a deer in Grundy County on Monday.
Another two-vehicle crash on Wilmington-Peotone Road on Thursday in Peotone Township has resulted in a female driver’s death. The last fatal crash on the roadway occurred on Monday.
A vehicle reportedly caught on fire following a three-vehicle crash on Interstate 55 in Shorewood on Friday morning, police said.
A motorcycle operator was seriously injured in a two-vehicle crash on Wednesday that led to the shutdown of the 9th Street bridge in Lockport.
No citations were issued to the semitrailer driver involved in the deadly crash in Will County. The intersection where the crash occurred only has stop signs on South Center Road.
A woman was killed in a crash near Peotone in Will County after her vehicle was struck by a semitrailer, police said.
A Sycamore woman was injured in a two-car crash Tuesday that authorities allege was caused by a Carol Stream driver.
Clay Russell, 61, was pronounced dead Sunday on Interstate 55 in Wilmington.
A motion for pre-trial release was denied Tuesday for a Naperville woman accused of crashing a school bus that transports special needs children, prosecutors said.
A 26-year-old Aurora man is facing a felony charge after police say he fatally struck a pedestrian in Wheaton early Sunday morning and left the scene.
The 48-year-old passenger of a motorcycle that was involved in a crash near Antioch has succumbed to her injuries, authorities said.
A motorcyclist was killed Tuesday in a crash in Lisle
A 21-year-old Otttawa man was hospitalized Sunday after Ottawa police say he lost control of his motorcycle and struck a concrete barrier on Veterans Memorial Bridge.
Lake County Sheriff’s deputies continue to investigate a serious traffic crash that occurred Saturday evening involving a motorcycle.
Lake County Sheriff’s crash investigators are looking into an overnight single-vehicle fatal traffic crash that occurred in unincorporated Antioch.
A driver involved in a Joliet crash last year that led to death of a 25-year-old passenger from Texas has been charged with aggravated driving under the influence.
A motorcycle operator was killed following a two-vehicle crash in Joliet on Thursday evening at the intersection of North Larkin Avenue and Ingalls Avenue.
An Oswego motorcycle operator has been hospitalized for life-threatening injuries following a crash in Joliet, police said. It is the second major crash involving a motorcycle since Thursday.
A driver crashed into Farkas Funeral Home in Joliet after evading an SUV that was traveling into the path of her vehicle, police said. City inspectors are evaluating the structural integrity of the building.
One person was killed in a crash involving a semitrailer and a minivan on Interstate 80 near Morris in Grundy County.
Courtney Miller, 18, who was killed in a two-vehicle crash in Mokena has been identified by the Will County Coroner’s Office.
Two women were injured in a two-vehicle, head-on crash shortly before 6:30 p.m. Friday at Illinois Route 2 and Sink Hollow Road, just outside of Dixon.
An 18-year-old girl was killed in a two-vehicle crash in Mokena, police said. A 47-year-old driver was issued citations and the investigation remains ongoing.
The cause of a crash on I-80 crash that left two people injured on Thursday morning still remains under investigation. The roadways have been re-opened.
A grand jury has indicted a Joliet man on charges alleging he was driving under the influence of alcohol in a July 28 crash that led to the death of a woman in Beecher.
The incident occurred around 4 p.m. Thursday.
A Joliet woman has been charged with failing to report a fatal crash in Crest Hill that led to the deaths of Laurie Cooper, 53, and Danny Cooper, 68, both of Plainfield.
The driver of a Ford Mustang was killed when her car crossed into the path of an oncoming pickup truck on Route 30 near Joliet on Monday morning.
Joliet police determined that the 18-year-old woman was driving an ATV with a 15-year-old boy sitting behind her.
Two people from Aurora were hospitalized with injuries Friday after a traffic crash in Sycamore Township at Peace and Freed roads, authorities said.
A Rutland man who was driving a tractor in September 2023 when it collided with a motorcycle, killing its driver, was charged Friday with reckless homicide, DeKalb County court records show.
Lake County Sheriff’s crash investigators are investigating a Thursday afternoon five-vehicle crash that left one person critically injured, police said.
The driver of a pickup truck on Interstate 55 in Channahon has died after his vehicle struck a bobtail truck, according to Illinois State Police.
Campton Hills police and rescue workers responded to a Thursday morning crash where a sedan drove under the rear axles of a loaded semi-trailer weighing about 80,000 pounds carrying feed.
Update: Seven people, including residents from DeKalb, Elgin and Wheaton, suffered injuries in a two-vehicle crash at Baseline and Glidden roads in Kingston Wednesday, DeKalb County Sheriff Andy Sullivan said. One driver was airlifted to a Rockford hospital.
Update: A married couple from Rochelle was killed and multiple others injured in a five-car pileup on Interstate 88 in DeKalb County Tuesday, when a box truck crashed into another car, prompting a chain reaction of collisions, authorities said.
A DeKalb man was killed over the weekend after his motorcycle collided with a vehicle on Aurora’s far west side, authorities said.
DeKalb County Sheriff's Chief Deputy Jim Burgh said the man allegedly crashed a 2017 Kia near the area of Genoa and Pierce roads Sunday, and attempted to flee the scene by knocking on a nearby resident’s door asking to use a phone.