3-year-old boy killed in I-90 crash in Gilberts

A 3-year-old boy from Rockford was killed Thursday in a three-vehicle crash on Interstate 90 in Gilberts.

According to Illinois State Police, a Ford Fusion was headed west on I-90 at 10:08 a.m. when it rear-ended a Ford Taurus, which was either stopped or driving slowly in the middle lane. The driver of the Fusion, a 48-year-old man from Zionsville, did not realize the Taurus was nearly stopped, police said.

A Ford F-150 was traveling behind the two other cars and hit the back of the Fusion as it was trying to avoid the collision, police said.

The boy, a passenger of the Taurus, was taken to Centegra Hospital-Huntley, where he was pronounced dead. A second passenger of the Taurus, a 30-year-old Dixon, Illinois, man, was airlifted to Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge with life-threatening injuries.

A 26-year-old Rockford woman, who was driving the Taurus, and the driver of the Fusion were taken to Advocate Sherman Hospital in Elgin with injuries that were not life-threatening.

Additional information was not immediately available, police said, and an investigation is ongoing.