Driver Killed In 3-Car Crash On I-57

MONEE, IL — A 29-year-old man from Glenwood was killed Monday afternoon after a three-car crash on Interstate 57 near Manhattan-Monee Road in which a child was ejected from another car involved. Thomas Stiso was pronounced deceased at the scene of the wreck at milepost 336 in Will County around 3:40 p.m.

Stiso was the driver of a Ford passenger car that was struck by a 2003 Cadillac Escalade and pushed into the back of a Volvo truck tractor/tanker trailer in the northbound lanes of I-57 while traffic was moving at a slow pace, according to a report from Illinois State Police. A GoFundMe account has been set up to help his family pay for Stiso's final expenses and burial.

The driver of the Cadillac, identified by police as 45-year-old Michael Rodriguez of Peotone, was driving on a revoked license at the time of the crash, police said, and also is alleged to have not had a child passenger in the back seat restrained properly. The child was ejected from the car as a result of the crash and hospitalized with non life-threatening injuries.

Rodriguez was also hospitalized with non-life threatening injuries. He was then charged with failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident, failure to secure child in a proper child restraint system and driving while license revoked have been filed, according to police.

A 43-year-old man who was the only occupant of the truck at the time was not injured.

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