Police say a 22-year-old Carpentersville woman was driving the wrong way when she crashed head-on into a van
Seven people are dead after a wrong-way crash on I-90 shut down the westbound lanes at Anthony Rd. near Hampshire, Illinois State Police said.Five children are among the seven people killed in a fiery, head-on crash on Interstate 90 near Hampshire early Sunday, according to Illinois State Police.
A vehicle was driving the wrong way on westbound I-90 near Anthony Rd. when it struck another vehicle head-on around 2:11 a.m., state police said. Both vehicles became fully engulfed in flames.Seven people were killed, including a woman and five children in the van and a second woman in the other car, state police said.
According to the preliminary investigation, 22-year-old Jennifer Fernandes, of Carpentersville, was traveling eastbound in the westbound lanes when she struck a van with seven occupants head on, ISP said.Thomas Dobosz, 32 of Rolling Meadows, was driving the van that was struck. He was airlifted to Loyola University Medical Center with critical injuries, according to officials.
Lauren Dobosz, 31, as well as five children, were all killed in the crash, ISP said. The children included two 13 year old girls, a 7 year old boy, a 6 year old boy and a 5 year old girl, according to police.
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