BOONE COUNTY, Ill. (WTVO) — The Winnebago County Coroner has identified Chloe Verni-Lau, 19, as the victim of a fatal head-on crash in Boone County on Saturday.
According to the Boone County Sheriff’s Office, around 10:54 p.m. Friday, Shaquan Hayes, 28, was intoxicated while driving on Spring Creek Road and crossed the center line, crashing his Ford Taurus head-on into an oncoming Toyota.
Three passengers in the Toyota were hospitalized with serious injuries; Verni-Lau was later pronounced dead at 11:42 p.m.
An autopsy determined her cause of death was multiple blunt trauma due to the crash…