4 youngsters, their mom and one other youngster are amongst seven individuals who died in a crash involving a automobile going the flawed approach on a freeway.
A automotive crashed head-on with a van carrying the kids round 2am Sunday on the Jane Addams Memorial Tollway close to Riley, Illinois, in response to state police.
Each autos caught on fireplace and 6 folks within the van died – a mom, Lauren Dobosz, 31, 4 of her youngsters, and a fifth youngster who was their pal. The youngsters who have been killed have been a 5-year-old woman, a 6-year-old boy, a 7-year-old boy and two 13-year-old women.
Dobosz was a cheer coach for the Oriole Park Falcons, a junior league soccer staff in Chicago’s Northwest Aspect.
‘It’s with heavy coronary heart that we announce the passing of our beloved cheer coach Lauren Dobosz, alongside facet her lovely youngsters Emma, Lucas, Nicholas and Ella and gracious pal Kat,’ the Oriole Park Falcons wrote in a GoFundMe web page began on Monday.
‘They’ve been concerned in a tragic automotive accident and might be missed dearly by the Falcon Household and expensive mates.
‘Lauren at all times made a terrific impression on everybody she met, she was energetic, laughter, and at all times a very good time. We’re going to overlook you Lauren and your spunky, candy, sassy youngsters and each so cherished pal.’
Dobosz’s husband was airlifted to a hospital in critical situation, in response to the Chicago Solar-Occasions.
The driving force and solely occupant within the Acura TSX, Jennifer Fernandez, 22, of Carpentersville, died. Fernandez was driving eastbound on westbound lanes ‘for unknown causes’ when she struck the 2005 Chevrolet van.
Authorities didn’t launch extra particulars amid a ‘very lively and ongoing investigation’, in response to the newspaper.
The GoFundMe web page for Dobosz and the kids’s funeral bills had raised greater than $48,000 by Monday night time.
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