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Tyrone Allen Stokes

From Chicago Tribune
Charges have been filed against the Far South Side man who was driving a sport utility vehicle when he crashed into a pickup truck on the Dan Ryan Expressway early Saturday, killing the pickup’s driver, police said.
Tyrone Allen Stokes, 42, of the 10200 block of South Carpenter Street, was charged with aggravated driving under the influence of alcohol in the death of a man identified by the Cook County medical examiner’s office as Phillip Briner, 21, of Crown Point, Ind., Illinois State Police spokeswoman Monique Bond said.
Stokes was ordered held in lieu of $450,000 bail in a midday hearing in Cook County Bond Court today.
Stokes submitted to standard field sobriety tests administered by troopers on the scene and his blood alcohol content was measured at 0.106, more than the legal limit of 0.08, according to a police report.
Stokes was behind the wheel of a red 2002 GMC that crashed into a pickup truck being driven by Briner early Saturday morning on the ….MORE

(Nov. 4, 2012) — PETERSBURG — A Petersburg man was hospitalized and charged with driving under the influence of alcohol Thursday night after crashing into a wooded area near Lincoln’s New Salem State Historic Site, according to the Illinois State Police.
John Kiper, 51, was driving his 1994 Chevy Silverado pickup west on the Athens Blacktop shortly before 8:30 p.m. Thursday when he didn’t stop a stop sign at Illinois Route 97 and drove about 150 feet into the woods, state police said.

Obituary for Yvonne Salay Tyson: arrangements

From WLDS
(Nov. 4, 2012) — A Springfield woman is dead after a two-vehicle crash happened in Cass County Saturday night.
According to the Illinois State Police, 23-year-old Yvonne Salay Tyson was killed in a crash that happened on Illinois Route 125, about a mile west of Panther Grove Road near Philadelphia at around 7 p-m.
State police say 19-year-old Dalton Jones of …MORE

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From BND.com
Illinois State Police on Sunday identified the driver in a fatal crash on Interstate 55-70 and released details of an unrelated one-vehicle crash on Interstate 64.
Jason M. Kutz, 27, of Highland, was the driver in a car that left the roadway and struck a bridge support on Friday near Collinsville.
Kutz has been charged with driving under the influence of drugs, with the possibility of additional charges, Illinois State Police Master Sgt. Craig Campbell said Sunday night.
Kutz suffered critical injuries and was taken to St. Louis University Hospital. An update of his condition was not immediately available.
A passenger in the vehicle, Janelle M. Schmidt, 26, of Highland, died from blunt chest trauma…..MORE

From WTHI
MATTOON, Ill. (WTHI/AP) – A 65-year-old Mattoon woman was killed in a drunk driving accident on Saturday.
The Illinois State Police said that the crash happened at Ninth and Marshall Streets in Mattoon, Ill. around 10:15 p.m. on Saturday.
Killed in the crash was Shirley Graham, 65, of Mattoon, Ill.
The Illinois State Police have charged Devin Daily, 28, …MORE

From ChicagoTribune.com:
Lynwood Clerk Roel Valle was charged Monday with reckless homicide and drunken driving in connection with a car crash that killed a Chicago woman, Illinois State Police said.
Valle, 64, drove his village-owned vehicle the wrong direction in the southbound lanes of Illinois Highway 394 on Feb. 4 when he collided with a car carrying Melikah Little, 32, killing the mother of four children, authorities said…..MORE