Victims In Harlem Avenue Crash Identified

Bridgeview Police have released the names of the two people who died Sunday at the scene of a violent wreck at the intersection of 95th Street and Harlem Avenue.

The driver of the vehicle, 80-year-old Francis Iglinski, of Chicago, and his passenger, Delores M. Weber, 85, also of Chicago, were pronounced dead at the scene.

Witnesses told police that Iglinski’s late model Lincoln Town car hit the yellow median divider at the intersection and jumped into northbound traffic striking a van driven by a family from Palos Heights, police said in a news release.

The accident happened around 3 p.m. Sunday. Police said that Iglinski’s vehicle hit a Town and Country van on the passenger side being driven by Haneen A. Salem, 17, of Palos Heights.

Five other passengers were in the van including Salem’s siblings and three friends. All the occupants in the vehicle were teens and children, police said.

The passengers, including the driver, Salem, were taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn where they were treated for non-life threatening injuries.

Bridgeview Police interviewed the survivors and witnesses at the crash scene and continue to investigate with assistance from the South Suburban Major Accident Reconstruction Team.