Police: Woman airlifted from 6-vehicle crash in Aurora

A 22-year-old North Aurora man has been charged with improper lane use in connection with a six-vehicle crash that injured four people - two critically - at 6:43 a.m. Monday at Butterfield Road and DuPage Parkway in Aurora, authorities said.

Police said the driver, Terrence L. Rush of the 600 block of Hidden Creek Lane, is being treated at an Aurora hospital.

A 37-year-old Romeoville woman injured in the crash was airlifted from the scene to a suburban hospital. Two others were treated at area hospitals and released.

Butterfield Road was closed for several hours between Eola Road and Farnsworth Avenue before reopening at 1 p.m.

Police said their preliminary investigation indicates Rush was driving east on Butterfield at a high rate of speed in a 2014 Chevy Malibu and was trying to pass several vehicles.

A 60-year-old Naperville man was driving west in a 2015 Chevy Malibu, police said, and swerved to avoid a head-on crash. The two cars sideswiped each other and Rush then collided head-on with a westbound 2014 Nissan Sentra driven by the Romeoville woman.

Three other vehicles, driven by a 38-year-old Naperville man, a 33-year-old North Aurora woman, and a 32-year-old West Chicago man, could not stop in time and ended up striking the two disabled vehicles.

At least three of the vehicles wound up in a pond, police said.

Police said there were no signs of impaired driving at the scene.

Officers from the Aurora police traffic division are investigating the crash along with the department's evidence technicians.