A 17-year-old girl is in serious condition and four other teenagers were also hospitalized after the car they were in tried to pass another vehicle and rolled over near Huntley Saturday evening.
The McHenry County Sheriff’s Office and Huntley Fire Protection District responded around 8:56 p.m. Saturday to the 11100 block of Conley Road in unincorporated Huntley for a single-vehicle crash.
Sheriff’s deputies arrived to find a single-vehicle rollover crash off the roadway east of Route 47.
A preliminary investigation showed that a 2013 Infiniti G37 was traveling westbound on Conley Road, according to the sheriff’s office.
The Infiniti attempted to pass another vehicle in a no-passing zone, the sheriff’s office said.
The Infiniti left the roadway to the north and rolled over, crashing through a fence and into a field.
The vehicle, driven by a 17-year-old Algonquin boy, landed upright in the field.
The passengers in the car included a 16-year-old Dundee area boy, 16-year-old Carpentersville boy, 17-year-old Algonquin girl and 18-year-old Carpentersville woman.
The driver of the Infiniti and all four passengers were transported by ambulance to Northwestern Medicine Hospital in Huntley and Northwestern Medicine Hospital in Woodstock.
The 17-year-old girl was later transferred to Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge where she remains in serious condition, the sheriff’s office said.
The other victims were believed to have non-life-threatening injuries.
The Lakewood Police Department, Crystal Lake Fire Rescue Department and Woodstock Fire Rescue District assisted at the scene.
The crash remains under investigation by the McHenry County Sheriff’s Office Major Traffic Crash Investigation Unit.