HAMPSHIRE, Illinois — An eighth person has died in a fiery, wrong-way car crash on an interstate in northern Illinois, state police announced Wednesday.
Thomas Dobosz, 32, of Rolling Meadows, Illinois, has died, police said.
He was driving a large Chevrolet pickup carrying his 31-year-old wife, Lauren, and five children ages 5 to 13 when it collided with a car around 2 a.m. Sunday on Interstate 90 in McHenry County , about 80 kilometers (50 miles). ) of Chicago, police said.
Jennifer Fernandez, 22, of Carpentersville, Illinois, was driving an Acura TSX luxury sedan and was also killed, police said.
Fernandez was driving in the wrong direction “for unknown reasons” before striking the van in the westbound lanes of I-90, police said, adding that both vehicles were “engulfed in flames.”
