A four-vehicle crash triggered by a deer running across the road resulted in two people being killed and two seriously injured Sunday night at Plank and Switzer roads west of Elgin, according to the Kane County Sheriff’s Office.
The accident occurred about 9:45 p.m. when 18-year-old Vance Peterson, driving a Ford F150 pickup truck westbound on Plank Road, went into oncoming traffic while unsuccessfully trying to avoid hitting the deer, a sheriff’s office news release said. He collided head on with a GMC Sierra pickup pulling a trailer holding a skid steer loader.
Peterson’s truck was then hit by a Dodge Ram, causing it to catch on fire, the report said.
Peterson was rescued after his pickup’s driver-side window was broken out, but he received serious burns and fractures requiring him to be air-lifted to Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, officials said.
Two passengers in the GMC — 31-year-old Erick Garcia-Porcayo and 25-year-old Rosalio Porcayo-Porcayowere — were pronounced dead at the scene. The driver of the truck, identified as 22-year-old Yahir Porcayo-Porcayo, was flown by helicopter to Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital in Downers Grove.
Both Peterson and Yahir Porcayo-Porcayo are in stable condition, according to the release.
The driver of the Dodge Ram — Baldemar Rodriguez-Lopez, 30 — was not injured.
