A 23-year-old man has been charged in a deadly DUI crash he allegedly caused last spring after exiting the Eisenhower Expressway. Antonio Ruiz was driving east in a red truck on April 11 when he got off Interstate 290 at the Austin Boulevard exit, Cook County prosecutors said Wednesday. He then allegedly started going the…
ROLLING MEADOWS, Ill. (CBS) — Prosecutors say a man had marijuana in his system when he caused a crash that killed a long-time music teacher in the Elgin schools. As WBBM Newsradio’s Mike Krauser reports, Rafael Gonzalez, 37, is charged with aggravated driving under the influence in the crash that killed Linda Reniert, 66, who had…
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COAL CITY, IL —A 35-year-old Coal City man who was smoking marijuana in his Jeep Liberty when he crashed into a 62-year-old New Lenox motorcycle rider, killing the man, was sentenced to prison last week. Steven Klein drew a term of six years at the Illinois Department of Corrections from Will County Judge Daniel Rippy. Read the…
BARRINGTON HILLS, Ill. (STMW) — A Barrington Hills man has pleaded guilty to a northwest suburban DUI crash that killed an Elgin man and injured two other people in March 2013. Karsten Eilertsen, 19, entered a blind plea of guilty to two counts of aggravated DUI for the March 3, 2013, crash in Barrington Hills. His…
A drugged-up driver responsible for a deadly car crash was doing just about everything behind the wheel but paying attention to the road, authorities say. Jordan Michalak of Berwyn, Illinois, was using a social media app and wearing headphones during the Oct. 9 car crash that killed William Molthop, 60, and Vincent Neri, 62, according to…
Reckless driving and other negligent behaviors behind the wheel causes thousands of auto accident injuries and deaths every year. In a recent case, a 60-year-old woman was killed in a two-vehicle crash in Decatur, Illinois. Police said Dylan R. Bunch Jr., 20, was under the influence of cannabis when he ignored a stop sign and hit the…
Three months after a McHenry crash that killed an Elmhurst woman, a Wisconsin resident has been charged with driving under the influence of marijuana and prescription drugs, court records show. Read the full article here.
ROCKFORD, Ill. (WIFR) – A Rockford firefighter is charged Friday with reckless homicide and two counts of aggravated DUI resulting in death, stemming from a crash earlier this year. Miguel Holland, 49, was allegedly behind the wheel of a Rockford fire truck on March 6 when it crashed into a car at the intersection of Whitman…