7 killed, including 5 kids, in wrong-way crash in Illinois
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HAMPSHIRE, Ill. (AP) - Police say seven people are dead after a crash involving a wrong-way vehicle on an interstate in northern Illinois.
The crash occurred around 2 a.m. Sunday on Interstate 90 in McHenry County, roughly 50 miles from Chicago.
Police say 31-year-old Lauren Dobosz and five children in a Chevrolet van were killed. The children were ages 5 to 13.
The driver of the van, 32-year-old Thomas Dobosz, was seriously injured.
Jennifer Fernandez, the 22-year-old driver of an Acura TSX, was also killed in the crash. Police say she was traveling in the wrong direction on westbound I-90 before striking the van.
Both vehicles were “engulfed in flames,” according to police.
It wasn’t immediately known why Fernandez was in the wrong lanes.
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