Driver Dies After Crash In Bolingbrook: Will Co. Coroner

UPDATE: This story was amended at 4:10 p.m., March 11, to reflect new information from the Illinois State Police.

BOLINGBROOK, IL — A 57-year-old Franklin Park resident died on Tuesday, March 10, the Will County Coroner's Office reported, after a violent crash on I-55. Jaime Herrera was driving northbound on I-55 when his vehicle collided with another nera mile marker 269 in Bolingbrook. Emergency services rushed Herrera to Amita Bolingbrook Hospital, but he was pronounced dead at 7:55 p.m.

His death comes only a day after that of local teenager Colin Montrose, who also died from injuries sustained in a violent crash.

A preliminary autopsy report on Herrera is still pending, the coroner's office reported, and the Illinois State Police are currently investigating the incident.

"The final cause and manner of death will be determined at a later date pending police, autopsy, toxicology reports," the coroner's office said.

On Wednesday afternoon, the Illinois State Police released a more thorough explanation of the incident.

Their preliminary investigation indicated that both Herrera and the vehicle which struck him were traveling north on I-55 at Woodward Avenue in the left lane shortly before 7 p.m. For unknown reasons, Herrera veered off the roadway and crashed into the concrete barrier wall to the left. Another vehicle driven by a 30-year-old Bolingbrook woman struck Herrera; the impact caused his car to roll over and come to a rest on its roof.

Herrera suffered injuries that eventually proved fatal, but the younger Bolingbrook resident only suffered non-life threatening injuries. All northbound lanes near the crash scene were closed until shortly after midnight.

No other people were in the cars when the vehicles collided, and no charges have yet been filed against the Bolingbrook driver.