Winfield teen dies after auto accident

A 17-year-old Winfield resident died early Sunday morning after a Saturday night auto accident in West Chicago, authorities said.

Jake Carney was pronounced dead at 4:03 a.m. Sunday, officials from the DuPage County coroner's office said.

No autopsy is planned, officials said, but toxicology tests were taken and results are pending.

Officials from the sheriff's office said the teen was taken to Central DuPage Hospital after crashing a 2001 Volkswagen Jetta into a 1997 Ford F-150 at 9:01 p.m. Saturday.

Carney apparently lost control of the vehicle while driving east on Garys Mill Road, past Indian Knoll Road, and struck the rear of the Ford as it was pulling out of a residential driveway, officials said.

Both directions of Garys Mill were closed from Roosevelt Road to Wynwood Road for about four hours while sheriff's investigators reconstructed the crash.