Crash

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.

A Channahon man died following on a crash over the weekend on Interstate 55 in Channahon Township.

A badly injured child is among 19 people who were injured when a Delta Airlines plane flipped upon arrival at Toronto’s Pearson Airport

Illinois Route 126 in Plainfield is currently shut down between Illinois Route 59 and Interstate 55 due to a crash, the Plainfield Police Department said.

Illinois State Police are investigating a multi-car crash that happened on Interstate 80 near Larkin Avenue on Sunday.

One person is dead and two others are injured after a car went off the roadway and went airborne before landing near a creek in unincorporated Homer Township.

Richard Wayt, 77, and Kathleen Wayt, 63, were identified as the people who were killed in the crash in Peotone Township in Will County.

A car crashed into the front of a local business on Jan. 29, leaving significant damage but causing no injuries, police said.

A Joliet woman whose driver’s license had already been revoked is charged with a DUI after the car she was driving crashed into a semi-trailer truck, police said.

Richard Wayt, 77, and Kathleen Wayt, 63, were identified as the people who were killed in the crash in Peotone Township in Will County.

Two people were killed and four others injured in a three-vehicle crash involving a garbage truck near Peotone in Will County.

Emergency crews responded to a multiple vehicle crash at the intersection of Illinois Route 251 and May Road on Monday, Jan. 27, 2025 in Peru. The crash happened at 12:44p.m. Ambulances from Peru, La Salle, Mendota Spring Valley, and Oglesby responded to the scene. Five people were taken from the scene at least two were extricated.

A two-vehicle crash in Shorewood caused injuries to three people and one of them is in critical condition at a hospital in Joliet.

A Joliet man is hospitalized with serious but stable injuries after a crash involving three vehicles at Ruby and North Broadway streets Friday night.

A termination hearing for a Joliet police officer was expected to begin Monday. But a member of the board for the hearing was on a train that was involved in a crash.

Joliet police responded to a traffic collision at 2:56 a.m. Sunday in the area of North Chicago and Benton streets that caused two people to be injured. Police said those involved in the crash may have been involved in an altercation on Saturday night.

A 31-year-old customer who inside of a Joliet McDonald’s was struck in the leg by a table and shattered glass after a vehicle plowed into the restaurant, police said.

The driver of an Illinois Department of Transportation snow plow died Monday after it collided with a Canadian National Railway train in Iroquois County

A Lockport woman was issued a citation for allegedly violating Scott’s law by crashing into the rear end of a parked Illinois State Police squad vehicle in Woodridge.

Two people were extricated from vehicles and hospitalized following a two-vehicle crash in Crest Hill.

Lake County Sheriff’s crash investigators are looking into a Christmas Eve crash that left one man dead.

Illinois State Police Troop 5 said they are investigating a fatal head-on crash involving two semitrailers that occurred Tuesday morning east of Grant Park on Illinois Route 17

A Wilmington man has been charged with violating Scott’s Law in connection with the death of an Illinois State Police trooper on Interstate 55 near Channahon.