2, dead, 12 hurt when van flips on Stevenson Expressway

A Labor Day crash on an expressway southwest of Chicago killed a teenage girl and an adult man, and injured 12 others -- all temporary workers on their way home from a job.

The victims were occupants of a van that flipped over after the driver lost control. The Illinois State Police closed the northbound lanes of the Stevenson Expressway, for three hours Monday afternoon, diverting traffic to a state highway.

The victims, all employees of a temporary labor agency, had been working at a golf course in suburban Lemont, said ISP Trooper Delila Huerta. Some were undocumented workers and the male who died was from Mexico, Huerta said.

U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officials arrested four of the survivors, including the driver, 27-year-old Jarina Salgado, Huerta said.

The van was heading north when it started shaking, veered across one lane of traffic, struck the guardrail and flipped. No other vehicles were involved, authorities said.

The victims were not wearing seat belts and reported that the van's seat belts weren't working. The van, which was borrowed from an acquaintance, may have malfunctioned, Huerta said.

The state police did not identify the deceased victims because the girl was a minor and the man's relatives had not been notified. The mother of the girl, who was 17, was a passenger in the van, Huerta said. The man who died was in his 20s. The identification card he carried did not include a date of birth, she said.

The crash occurred near County Line Road near southwest suburban Burr Ridge.