Crash

A young teenager was injured after the mini motorcycle he was operating collided with a car in Plainfield, police said

A pedestrian was killed Monday night when she was struck by a car on Ogden Avenue, authorities said,

Whiteside County sheriff’s deputies responded to a 911 call around 6:15 a.m. Monday, reporting the crash on Route 84 near the intersection of Lock Road in rural Fulton, according to a news release

Four Genoa residents were hospitalized recently after an ATV rollover crash involving seven total people on a trail at Apple Canyon Lake, according to the Jo Daviess County Sheriff’s Office.

Two people were arrested after they were involved in a police chase and traffic crash before being arrested, police said.

Lake County Sheriff’s crash investigators are investigating an overnight hit-and-run traffic crash involving a motorcycle, police said.

Lake County Sheriff’s traffic crash investigators are investigating a Friday afternoon fatal crash involving a motorcycle.

One person died in a two-vehicle crash approximately one mile west of Manteno Friday.

The Wabena Bridge over I-80 in Minooka has been closed after a truck struck the bridge on Monday.

A Crest Hill man was sentenced to serve 50% of a four-year prison sentence after he pleaded guilty to the 2024 reckless homicide of a Joliet couple but he could spend less than 10 months in prison. 

Wallace firefighters responded to an overturned sand hauler at the intersection of North 15th Road and U.S. Route 6 on Wednesday, July 9, 2025 in Ottawa. The semi overturned on the train tracks. La Salle County Sheriff and Ottawa Police assisted with the crash.

A crash involving two semi-tractor trailers resulted in the death of one of the drivers early Monday morning on the Kankakee/Iroquois County line.

A Joliet man is charged with driving drunk in a crash that critically injured a motorcycle operator and he was ordered to remain in jail after prosecutors said he told police he wanted to go back to Mexico. 

The Illinois State Police issued a reminder for drivers to be careful on and around motorcycles as fatalities increase over the summer months.

The office of Will County Coroner Laurie Summers has identified an Aurora man killed in a crash on I-55 in Will County Saturday.

Crews from the Joliet fire and police departments responded to the Joliet Regional Airport Saturday afternoon after a single-engine plane flipped after landing.

A car believed to have been involved in a hit-and-run crash that killed a 15-year-old boy has been located, the McHenry County Sheriff’s Office announced Saturday.

Authorities are investigating a crash involving a pedestrian that occurred July 4 near Round Lake, police said.

An elderly woman was pronounced dead Wednesday following a vehicle crash at Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery in Elwood.

A 40-year-old man fell out of a moving Toyota sedan on Illinois Route 38 north of Elburn and was injured Tuesday after he opened the door instead of the window, authorities said. He remains hospitalized Wednesday, according to the Kane County Sheriff's Office.

A woman was killed in a crash at the intersection of Grove Road and Illinois Route 126 in Na-Au-Say Township Tuesday afternoon.

Illinois State Police arrested Lisa E. Cotton, of Blue Island, in connection with Thursday’s crash of a semi-tractor trailer on Interstate 57.

Three people were injured after an SUV collided with a Kaneland School District 302 school bus in Sugar Grove Wednesday, authorities said. “The village has been seeking approval to implement safety improvements for drivers,” Sugar Grove officials said of the intersection.

A motion was approved Monday to deny pre-trial release for a Bolingbrook woman accused of DUI and crashing into an Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) truck that was on the scene of a fatal car crash investigation Sunday.

A pedestrian who was struck and killed June 16 has been identified, authorities said.

Two people were killed in a three-vehicle crash on Interstate 55 in Lemont.

The Illinois State Police responded to three crashes involving multiple vehicles along Interstate 80 in Joliet on Wednesday.

An Earlville teen died Monday, June 9, 2025, in a two-vehicle crash north of Compton in Lee County.

Two people died following a single-vehicle crash in Joliet on Friday night.

Semi driver Eric Dodge of Ashton speaks four months after a near-fatal crash in which his truck veered off Interstate 88 between Rock Falls and Dixon, launched over Bollman Road overpass and landed in a cornfield.

Two people suffered minor injuries from a car crash that resulted in two vehicles crashing into a ditch Tuesday morning in Woodstock, officials report.

A New Lenox man who was driving a Mini Cooper has died after he was involved in a crash on May 31 with a Postal Service van

An 8-year-old boy is the most recent casualty of a car crash at a Chatham daycare April 28

John Callahan, the Grundy County Coroner, confirmed Monday that Alexis Kay Higgins-Weatherhead, 18, Coal City, has died after her vehicle was discovered in a lake at around 11 p.m. Sunday on Jugtown Road slightly north of Deerfield Drive.

Joliet Police report that the driver of a car that crashed into a parked truck was hospitalized after the crash which left a portion of Maple Road closed Saturday.

A car crashed into a light pole and then into a Joliet residence along Larkin Avenue on Friday.

A 14-year-old child riding an electric bike in Ottawa was injured Tuesday afternoon in a collision with a semi tractor-trailer on the city’s west side, according to the Ottawa Police Department.

A portion of northbound Interstate 57 in Kankakee County is closed following the crash of a commercial truck at approximately 5:30 a.m. today.

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.