Driving Related Deaths

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DWARDSVILLE, Ill. — A Collinsville man was found guilty on Tuesday in connection to a fatal crash that killed a Highland woman in 2018. Wayne Stayton, 41, was found guilty of two counts of aggravated DUI causing death, Madison County State’s Attorney Tom Haine announced Tuesday. The crash happened at about 4 a.m. on Feb. 23, 2018,…

A 32-year-old man, charged Wednesday with four counts of aggravated DUI involving a death, had alcohol and marijuana in his system Saturday when his vehicle struck a disabled car on Route 53 in Rolling Meadows, killing all four occupants, authorities said. Lamar C. Graves of Bellwood was ordered held on $450,000 bail Wednesday by Cook…

A woman serving a seven-year prison term for 2009 crash that killed a St. Charles couple while she had marijuana in her system but was not impaired was resentenced to probation Wednesday. A Kane County judge said the THC in the body of Alia Bernard, 31, of Aurora, did not contribute criminally to the deaths…

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Stephanie Melgoza, 24, is a woman from Illinois who killed two pedestrians while driving drunk in April 2022. At the time of the crash, she was a senior at Bradley University in East Peoria. Police who attended the scene discovered a small bag of marijuana, a smoking pipe and an open bottle of vodka in her car. At the hearing on…

UPDATE: The victim has been identified as 43-year-old Bernard Sawtelle. ROCKFORD, Ill. (WTVO) — Rockford Police have charged Todd Norton, 52, for driving under the influence of drugs when he reportedly crashed his pickup truck into a telephone pole, pinning a 43-year-old cyclist beneath it. According to police, the crash occurred in the 800 block…

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