Crash

The Minooka Police Department announced Friday afternoon that Ridge Road is reopened after it was closed due to a traffic accident.

A two-vehicle crash in rural Prophetstown on Wednesday afternoon left one man dead and another injured, according to a news release from the Whiteside County Sheriff’s Office.

Multiple people on board a private plane that crashed into a San Diego military housing neighborhood early Thursday are dead but no one on the ground was injured, authorities said

According to Oregon fire crews, occupants in the vehicles were treated at the scene and did not need to be transported to a medical facility.

Overnight parking for long-haul truckers at interstate rest stops is critically short and was a key contributor to a 2023 Greyhound bus crash in Illinois that killed three people, federal regulators said Tuesday.

Lake County Sheriff’s deputies are investigating a serious crash that occurred when an ATV carrying three people, including two children, struck a tree.

One person is dead and another one injured after an early morning crash on Interstate 88 near Lisle

An 18-year-old driver died from injuries he suffered in a crash in Joliet Township.

Two people were taken to an area hospital following a two-vehicle crash on Illinois Route 115 near 2000S Road southwest of Kankakee Monday afternoon.

An off-duty Joliet police officer died Friday following a crash in southeastern Will County, the Joliet Police Department said.

A Lemont man is facing multiple charges after he fled Bolingbrook police and his SUV struck a vehicle causing serious injuries to a woman and her 3-month-old child.

A 22-year-old motorcyclist succumbed to injuries sustained in a Wednesday morning crash on Butterfield Road in Wheaton, authorities said.

The Carroll County Sheriff’s Office said the initial investigation indicates the southbound motorcycle crossed into the northbound lane while traveling on Illinois 84 and collided with a northbound semi.

A Rock Falls man is hospitalized in Rockford after the motorcycle he was driving collided with an SUV near Palmyra and Peek Home roads.

Jerry D. Spears, 82, of Buda, was identified by the Bureau County Coroner’s Office as the man who died Saturday following a crash west of Buda involving a vehicle and a farm implement

An 82-year-old Buda man died Saturday after a crash involving a vehicle and a tractor towing farm a implement west of Buda

Investigating deputies have determined that a 2013 GMC Acadia was traveling east on Route 2 at a high rate of speed when it struck an eastbound 2014 Ford Fusion. The Acadia then crossed the median and collided with a westbound 2012 Dodge Charger.

Illinois State Police released preliminary toxicology results that showed no drugs or alcohol in the system of a driver who crashed into a central Illinois after-school program, killing four young girls

The teen’s name has not yet been officially released.

Authorities said Tuesday they believe a crash through an Illinois after-school building that killed three kids and one teenager wasn’t targeted

A driver suffers life-threatening injuries after crashing into a utility pole early Thursday morning along Route 14 near Harvard, officials report.

A former jailhouse informant is accused of a hit-and-run crash in Joliet on the same day he allegedly carried out an armed home invasion in New Lenox while wearing a Halloween mask, court records show. 

A 65-year-old man died in a single-vehicle crash in Frankfort where the vehicle struck multiple fire hydrants and a tree, police said.

A 56-year-old pedestrian is in critical but stable condition after he was struck by a Kia Forte on a part of Cass Street in Joliet that had no crosswalk. 

A Spring Grove man was critically injured when his motorcycle collided with a garbage truck near Antioch, authorities said.

An Oswego man found guilty in a deadly two-car crash that killed a Somonauk man in November 2021 is set to be sentenced in June.

Two drivers are in serious condition following a crash at an intersection that is not too far from Louis Joliet Mall.

A 77-year-old woman died in a two-vehicle crash at the intersection of Caton Farm Road and Essington Road in Joliet, police said.

A two-vehicle crash on Interstate 80 in Joliet Township led to injuries to one driver and road closures for roughly an hour.

A Joliet man was killed in a crash on Monday morning on Interstate 55 in Channahon Township, according to the Will County Coroner’s Office.

Utica firefighters responded to the scene of a single-vehicle rollover crash on Monday just to the west of the entrance of the Starved Rock Lock and Dam Visitors Center on Dee Bennett Road near Utica. La Salle County Sheriff, Utica Police, Fire and EMS all responded to the scene. The crash happened shortly before 1 p.m. The driver was uninjured.

A pedestrian who was struck and killed by a pickup truck on April 2 has been identified, authorities said.

The Waukegan woman who died as a result of a two-vehicle crash in Gurnee has been identified, authorities said.

Police looking for driver of a car that apparently was involved in a crash that caused a semi-trailer truck to overturn on U.S. Route 30 in Plainfield Thursday night.

Arraignment scheduled for April 16.

Authorities on Tuesday identified a 31-year-old DeKalb man who died after the car he was driving crashed into a tree in Kingston Township Friday.

Developing: A Waterman woman, 77, suffered serious injuries after the car she was driving went off the road and flipped multiple times in the early morning hours Tuesday near Hinckley, authorities said.

A Marengo woman was hospitalized Monday after the car she was driving crashed into a guard rail southeast of Genoa, according to the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office.

Police say the vehicle overturned several times.

A 70-year-old Libertyville woman has been identified as the pedestrian who was struck and killed March 23, authorities said.

A driver was killed in Kingston late Friday night after their car veered off the road and drove into a tree, authorities said. This is a developing story.

A two-car crash on a snowy first day of spring sent two men, one from DeKalb and the other from Malta, to the hospital Thursday, authorities said.

A 6-year-old child in Joliet was driving an child-sized ATV with an 8-year-old passenger when the “ATV lost control and struck a tree,” police said. investigation indicates parents aware children operated ATV.

Two people were taken to an area hospital for treatment following a crash involving a passenger vehicle and a semi-tractor trailer in Iroquois County Saturday.

Lake County Sheriff’s crash investigators are looking into a serious single-vehicle traffic crash near Gurnee.

An Illinois State Trooper suffered non-life-threatening injuries Saturday when their squad car was struck by a driver who failed to move over on Interstate 57 in Kankakee County.

Two individuals died Sunday night in a fatal crash in Woodridge, authorities said.

Brother remembers Oscar Munguia, 24, of Joliet.

A driver led the Channahon and Wilmington police on a chase early Thursday morning before abandoning the vehicle, leading the police to issue a shelter-in-place order for the area around Sunset Drive near Galloway School.

Joliet police responded to the area of West Jefferson Street near Barney Drive for a report of a single-vehicle crash on Saturday.