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Eighth person dies from wrong-way crash on Illinois highway

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HAMPSHIRE, Ill. (AP) — Illinois State Police say an eighth person has died from a fiery crash involving a wrong-way car on an interstate in northern Illinois. Police announced Wednesday that 32-year-old Thomas Dobosz of Rolling Meadows, Illinois, has died. They say he was driving a van carrying his 31-year-old wife, Lauren, and five children ages 5 to 13 when it collided with a car around 2 a.m. Sunday on Interstate 90 in McHenry County, roughly 50 miles from Chicago. Also killed was the other driver, 22-year-old Jennifer Fernandez of Carpentersville, Illinois. Police have said both vehicles were “engulfed in flames.”

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