An eighth person has died in a car accident in northern Illinois, according to the Illinois State Police.
Thomas Dobosz, 32, of Rolling Meadows, Illinois, died, police said.
He was driving a Chevrolet full-size van carrying his 31 year-old wife, Lauren, and five children when it collided with a car around 2 a.m. Sunday on Interstate 90 in McHenry County, about 50 miles from Chicago, police said.
Lauren Dobosz and five children — ages 5, 6, 7 and two 13-year-olds — died Sunday.
Jennifer Fernandez, 22, of Carpentersville, Illinois, was driving an Acura TSX luxury sedan and died, police said.
Fernandez was driving in the wrong direction for unknown reasons before striking a van in the westbound lanes of I-90, police said, adding that both vehicles were engulfed in flames.