A 74-year-old woman was killed and a second woman was injured in a two-vehicle crash on the border of McHenry County and Boone County Saturday morning.
The McHenry County Sheriff’s Office, Boone County Sheriff’s Office, Marengo Fire and Rescue Districts and the Boone County Fire Protection District #2 responded around 8:45 a.m. Saturday to the area of Boone-McHenry County Line Road and Kishwaukee Valley Road in unincorporated Marengo for a vehicle crash.
Fire crews arrived to find a two-vehicle crash with entrapment and power lines down. Mercyhealth MD-1, a field physician, was called to the scene.
Authorities determined the crash was in the jurisdiction of Boone County, which led the investigation, while McHenry County assisted at the scene.
A preliminary investigation shows a 2014 Hyundai Accent was traveling southbound on County Line Road at Kishwaukee Valley Road, according to the Boone County Sheriff’s Office.
A 2018 Kia Soul, a 67-year-old Loves Park woman, was traveling westbound on Kishwaukee Valley Road approaching County Line Road.
The traffic on northbound and southbound County Line Road has stop signs but eastbound and westbound traffic does not have a stop sign.
The Hyundai, driven by Judy L. Streit, 74, of Capron, failed to yield at the intersection and proceeded into the intersection where it was struck by the Kia, sheriff’s officials said.
Streit was pronounced dead at the scene.
The driver of the Kia was transported to Mercyhealth Javon Bea Hospital — Riverside in Rockford with non-life-threatening injuries, sheriff’s officials said.
Kishwaukee Valley Road between County Line Road and Olcott Road was shut down on the McHenry County side for nearly eight hours during the incident.
The cause of the crash remains under investigation by the Boone County Sheriff’s Office.
Anyone with information regarding the incident is asked to call the sheriff’s office at 815-544-2144 or Boone County Crime Stoppers at 815-547-7867.