{"id":16552,"date":"2022-08-21T23:57:49","date_gmt":"2022-08-21T23:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/eighth-person-dies-in-illinois-highway-crash\/"},"modified":"2022-08-21T23:57:49","modified_gmt":"2022-08-21T23:57:49","slug":"eighth-person-dies-in-illinois-highway-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/?p=16552","title":{"rendered":"Eighth person dies in Illinois highway crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"fnmMv geuMB alqtB wqIGQ \"><span class=\"  \">HAMPSHIRE, Illinois &#8212; <\/span>An eighth person has died in a fiery, wrong-way car crash on an interstate in northern Illinois, state police announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"fnmMv geuMB alqtB wqIGQ \">Thomas Dobosz, 32, of Rolling Meadows, Illinois, has died, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"fnmMv geuMB alqtB wqIGQ \">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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"fnmMv geuMB alqtB wqIGQ \">Jennifer Fernandez, 22, of Carpentersville, Illinois, was driving an Acura TSX luxury sedan and was also killed, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"fnmMv geuMB alqtB wqIGQ \">Fernandez was driving in the wrong direction &#8220;for unknown reasons&#8221; before striking the van in the westbound lanes of I-90, police said, adding that both vehicles were &#8220;engulfed in flames.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/wireStory\/eighth-person-dies-wrong-crash-illinois-highway-87901433\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HAMPSHIRE, Illinois &#8212; 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&#8230;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}