Woman dies after major Joliet crash at intersection near I-80

A 25-year-old woman has died after a crash involving a semitrailer truck and a car at an intersection just north of Interstate 80 in Joliet.

On Tuesday, Joseil Escalonda-Gomez, 25, of El Paso, Texas, was pronounced dead at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, Joliet police Sgt. Dwayne English said.

Escalonda-Gomez was among five occupants of a Volkswagen Passat who were critically injured in the crash Monday morning at the intersection of McDonough and South Chicago streets.

Escalonda-Gomez was a passenger in the rear seat of the vehicle, English said. The Volkswagen Passat had struck a semitrailer truck that was heading south on Chicago Street.

“It is believed that the Passat collided under the trailer of the semitruck,” English said.

The driver of the Volkswagen Passat, a 26-year-old male passenger and one of two 30-year-old female passengers remain in the hospital, English said.

The other 30-year-old female passenger was conscious, standing at the scene and considered in stable condition, English said.

English had no information on where the Volkswagen Passat was coming from or going because the incident remains under investigation.