Updated 3/6/2021 5:46 PM A Joliet man is dead after his speeding car crashed and landed in a backyard early Saturday in South Elgin, witnesses and authorities said. The fatal crash occurred just before 2:30 a.m. on the 100 block of South Gilbert Street, according to South Elgin police and the South Elgin and Countryside Fire Protection District.
A witness who was driving north on Gilbert said the other car passed him -- while going perhaps 100 mph -- then failed to navigate the curve on the two-lane road and careened into a drainage ditch near railroad tracks that run parallel to the street, according to Deputy Police Chief Randy Endean.