2 killed in crash in Wayne
Two people were killed when a vehicle crashed head-on into another Sunday night in Wayne.
The Kane County Coroner’s Office identified them Friday as Felix Mendoza-Urbieta, 45, of Elgin, and his wife, Noemi Apolinar-Huerta, 44. He died at Northwestern Delnor Hospital in Geneva; she died at the scene.
The crash happened at 6:36 p.m. on Dunham Road south of Stearns Road. Mendoza-Urbieta was driving a Toyota Corolla south on Dunham when the vehicle crossed the double-yellow centerline and hit a northbound Toyota Highlander.
The driver of the Highlander and her 12-year-old daughter sustained minor injuries, according to the news release from the coroner’s office.
Wayne police and the DuPage Metropolitan Emergency Response and Investigations Team are investigating the crash.