cobrawilly said:
Looking at the body lines and it don't look nothing like a jetta? I had to look twice and no way is that a VW Jetta.
What's left of the Jetta is in the background. Here's the article:
Two drivers killed in Sugar Grove accident
PublicationNorthwest Herald DateJuly 14, 2006Section(s)Local NewsPage
By KELLEY CASINO
SUGAR GROVE - A Volkswagen
Jetta went airborne on Route 56 Thursday night and crashed into a sport utility vehicle carrying a man and two children, killing both drivers, witnesses told police.
The crash happened at 7:20 p.m. between Galena Boulevard and Route 47.
Sugar Grove Police Chief Brad Sauer said it appeared that the
Jetta was traveling at "a very high rate of speed" and attempting to pass several vehicles when the driver lost control on a gravel shoulder and entered a grass median.
The
Jetta then went airborne, completely jumping over one vehicle before hitting the Cadillac Escalade head-on, witnesses told police.
"It looks like the
Jetta came from the air and hit it from above, above the bumper," Sauer said. "Both drivers were dead upon our arrival at the scene."
The identities of the two drivers, both men, and the children were not released pending family notification. Neither of the men was from Sugar Grove, Sauer said.
Sauer said he did not know the condition of the children, whom he said could be in their early teens. He also could not give any specifics on the injuries the children suffered.
"They were severe enough that the fire department thought they should be transported by helicopter," he said.
Only one helicopter was close enough to the scene and took one child to an unknown hospital, he said. The second child was taken to Provena Mercy Center in Aurora by ambulance.
"I have to say that in my 18 years at the Sugar Grove Police Department, I have never seen a crash scene like that," Sauer said. "It really did look like something exploded out there; there were pieces of cars everywhere.
"The Volkswagen was cut in half. One half was in the median, the other half was on the other side of Route 56."
The driver of the Volkswagen was ejected from the vehicle. It is unknown whether he or the occupants of the Escalade were wearing seat belts. A fire department ladder truck held spotlights above the scene to allow the Kane County coroner's office and the Kane County Accident Reconstruction Team to process the scene late into the night. Route 56 remained closed from Galena Boulevard to Route 47. Police and fire departments from Aurora, North Aurora and Elburn assisted Sugar Grove, along with the Kane County sheriff's office and the Office of Emergency Management.
