CHICAGO — A woman and her five children were six of seven people who were killed early Sunday on Interstate 90 near Hampshire when two vehicles collided and went up in flames, according to Illinois State Police.
Troopers responded to a crash involving a wrong-way driver at 2:11 a.m. They said a van struck another vehicle head-on, causing both vehicles to burst into flames.
A trooper told the Chicago Tribune the woman driving the van was the mother of all five children who were killed. A woman in the other vehicle also died, state police said.
