Illinois Fatal Accidents

WOOD RIVER, Ill. - Authorities report that a reckless driver under police pursuit caused a fatal crash that claimed two lives. Officials from the Wood River Police Department attempted to pull over an ...[...]

Fiery collision kills two in Wood River after high-speed police pursuit incident unfolds ...[...]

The fleeing vehicle struck a car and sent it into a ravine, causing it to catch fire. The driver and passenger of the car that was hit both died.[...]

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (First Alert 4) - Two people died after a car ran a red light and crashed in Wood River. Around 10:50 a.m. on Thursday, a Wood River police officer activated emergency lights and ...[...]

Initial reports said two 15-year-old bicyclists were heading southbound on Terra Cotta Road when an unknown vehicle rear-ended one of them.[...]

Fatal motorcycle-semi crash closes I-294 southbound lanes near Ogden Avenue, with ongoing police investigation.[...]

A 70-year-old Rockford woman is safe after she was reported missing for more than a week. Officials release the identities of two Illinois men killed Saturday in a plane crash in Capron. The ...[...]

Officials release the identities of two Illinois men killed Saturday in a plane crash in Capron. Donald Ruf, 63, of Belvidere, is identified as the pedestrian killed Saturday in a crash on U.S. Route ...[...]

BOONE COUNTY, Ill. (WIFR) - Donald Ruf, 63, of Belvidere, is identified as the pedestrian killed Saturday in a crash on U.S. Route 20 east of Shattuck Road. A video with previous coverage is attached ...[...]

A fatal crash shut down southbound lanes on I-294 on Tuesday in west suburban Western Springs. Video from the scene shows a motorcycle and a semi truck at the crash site near Ogden Avenue. According ...[...]

WESTERN SPRINGS, Ill. (WLS) -- A fatal crash is causing a backup on southbound Interstate 294 Tuesday, Illinois State Police said. The crash involved a motorcyclist and a semitrailer, state police ...[...]

Lanes on the Tri-State Tollway (I-294) in the western suburbs were closed Tuesday after a fatal crash between a motorcycle and a semi-truck, Illinois State Police said.[...]

A Ripley, Illinois man was killed in a two-vehicle crash outside Cooperstown on Saturday.According to the Brown County Sheriff's Department, Rusty Rickard was h ...[...]

A woman died late Saturday night in a crash on Interstate 44 in St. Louis County. According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, the 27-year-old woman from Caseyville, Illinois, was stopped in lane ...[...]

Boone County Sheriff Scott Yunk said, around 3:20 p.m., deputies responded to a report of a plane crash in a corn field in Capron, Illinois, about 90 miles northwest of Chicago, near the Wisconsin ...[...]

Two people were killed in a plane crash on Saturday afternoon in Boone County, reported WREX, the NBC affiliate in Rockford.[...]

Two motorcyclists died in a crash on Friday along a state highway in Chicago's southwest suburbs, Illinois State Police said.[...]

A preliminary investigation revealed both motorcyclists were riding north on Illinois Route 394 when one victim rear-ended the other, causing both to crash.[...]

Two motorcyclists were killed after they crashed into each other in south suburban Cook County on Friday night.[...]

GLENWOOD, Ill. (WLS) -- Two motorcyclists were killed in a south suburban crash on Friday night, Illinois State Police said. ISP troopers responded to the crash in Glenwood on Illinois Route 394, just ...[...]

Saturday, June 28, 2025 2:53PM. ... ISP troopers responded to the crash in Glenwood on Illinois Route 394, just north of Dyer Road, around 9:50 p.m. ABC7 Chicago is now streaming 24 / 7.[...]

A wrong-way collision on the Tri-State Tollway near Glenview resulted in one death and injuries to others, amid challenging weather conditions in the Chicago area.[...]

A body was removed from the fire wreckage at an apartment building in Austin Friday, bringing the death toll to four.[...]

An Illinois man accused of fatally shooting another man in the head on a Minnesota highway after an apparent road-rage ... Kilynna Blake, 20, her 2-year-old son Dayan, and ...[...]

Nathan Sweeney has pleaded guilty to aggravated DUI causing death for crashing into Illinois State Police Deputy Christina Musil's squad car while high on drugs, and is set to be sentenced on August ...[...]

A fatal crash on Illinois Route 394 claimed a life and closed southbound lanes; lanes were later reopened as the Illinois State Police investigate the incident.[...]

Musil, 35, later died from her injuries at a DeKalb hospital. She was a five-year veteran of the DeKalb County Sheriff's Office, served in the Army National Guard as a military police officer and ...[...]

An 11-year-old boy, who was a travel baseball player and remembered as "always being full of joy," has been identified after he was left dead in a T-bone crash near Marengo.[...]

All westbound lanes of Interstate 20 and northbound lanes of Highway 67 are closed near the interchange between the two highways as the Dallas County sheriff's ...[...]

Jonathan Friedman was killed in a hit-and-run crash on Thursday in Morton Grove involving a Chevy Equinox LT, police said. One person is in custody.[...]

The man was pronounced dead at the scene and preliminary results of a forensic examination on Monday confirmed that he died of his crash injuries.[...]

PEORIA ( 25News Now) - A Hanna City man who pleaded guilty after leading Peoria County deputies on a fatal chase has been sentenced. Jeremy Perry was sentenced to 14 years and 12 years on two ...[...]

Jeremy E. Perry was sentenced to 26 years in prison for a 2023 crash that killed Miriam Schmid and severely injured her son, after pleading guilty to aggravated DUI and fleeing from deputies.[...]

Three people were killed - including an 11-year-old child - and one person was seriously injured in three separate crashes in a span of about 12 hours in McHenry County, Illinois.[...]

Highway fatalities SR 130 by Dundas next to west liberty[...]