Reckless Homicide Charges For Teen Driver In Crash That Killed 2

BARTLETT, IL — A Bartlett teen faces reckless homicide charges in connection with a crash that claimed the lives of Bartlett High School students Alex Czerwik and Cameron Kelty, both 16. The teen driver is accused of accelerating to speeds of more than 100 mph before hitting a utility pole in the Aug. 3 crash.

Prosecutors say the teen had borrowed his mother's car and was driving north on Newport Avenue with three friends when he "accelerated rapidly, drove at a high rate of speed in excess of 100 mph without regard to existing traffic conditions and failed to decrease speed adequately when approaching the curve at Devon Avenue.”

The car veered off the road near the Devon Avenue curve and struck a utility pole, police say, killing Czerwik, who was in the front passenger's seat.

After the crash, the driver and the car's other passengers were taken to nearby hospitals. On Aug. 6, Kelty died of injuries sustained in the crash.

"The tragic loss of two young men who were friends of the teen just rips your heart in two,” DuPage County State's Attorney Robert Berlin said in a news release.

Berlin added,“On behalf of the DuPage County State’s Attorney’s Office, I extend our sincerest condolences to the family and friends of Alex Czerwik and Cameron Kelty as they try to piece their lives back together after such a devastating loss"