2 Killed, 2 Hurt In Crash In Roseland
UPDATED 11/22/10 9:21 a.m.
CHICAGO (CBS) -- Two people, including a 13-year-old boy, have been killed and two others have been injured in a car crash in the Roseland neighborhood on the Far South Side.
Chicago police and fire officials said the crash occurred Friday just before 2 p.m. at 500 W. 111th St.
The driver of an Oldsmobile Achieva was traveling eastbound on 111th Street and drove past a stop sign at Wallace Street without stopping, a report from police News Affairs said.
The car went around another vehicle and into the westbound traffic lane, where it lost control and hit a curb, then a tree while flipping on it's side and striking a city light pole, the report said.
A 36-year-old woman and a 13-year-old boy died in the crash, Langford said. They were dead on the scene.
The woman was identified as Lavashia Penn, the boy as Damari McCaster, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's office.
A 25-year-old woman and a 37-year-old woman were taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn in critical condition, Langford said.
