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Woman killed in 3-vehicle crash in Wheaton

Posted September 30, 2017 1:00 am

Daily Herald report

An autopsy is scheduled to take place Monday for a person killed in a crash Saturday in Wheaton, authorities said Sunday.

Wheaton police and firefighters were called about 11:15 a.m. Saturday to the scene of the crash near 25 Rice Lake Square and Butterfield Road, according to the DuPage County coroner's office.

Authorities did not release the identity of the person killed or any further details about the crash.

The coroner's office along with Wheaton police and the DuPage County Accident Reconstruction Team are investigating, authorities said.

Citing police, ABC 7 reported Saturday that woman in her 20s was killed in a three-vehicle crash, police said.

A black Camaro, which was traveling westbound on Butterfield Road near Naperville Road at a high rate of speed, hit another vehicle in the rear causing it to catch on fire, police told ABC 7. The female driver was killed.

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