Overview

• State police report a northbound vehicle traveling in the southbound lanes struck another car head-on near the Des Plaines River around 1:29 a.m.
• The wrong-way driver, who was operating a Ford SUV, was pronounced dead at the scene.
• Investigators identified the deceased as a resident of Morris, though no name was released.
• The other driver, a Lockport resident, was taken to a nearby hospital in serious condition.
• All southbound lanes were shut for several hours and later reopened, with the cause under investigation and no charging decisions announced.