Two people died early Saturday in a single-vehicle crash in northwest suburban Elgin.
The crash happened shortly after midnight in the 1100 block of Forest Drive, where a vehicle carrying three people left the roadway and crashed into a tree, according to a statement from Elgin police.
The force of the impact required rescue workers to extricate two of the three people inside the vehicle, police said. All three were taken to Advocate Sherman Hospital in Elgin, where two of the occupants were later pronounced dead, police said. The third person is in serious condition.
Forest Drive will remain closed while officials investigate the crash.
Autopsies were scheduled for Saturday. Further details were not immediately available.
Anyone with information about the crash is asked to call police at (847) 289-2661.
