October 7, 2005
BY DAN ROZEK Staff Reporter Advertisement
A driver turned off his headlights and accelerated to an estimated 100 mph to escape police early Thursday, but the Villa Park man died moments later when his car slammed into a tree in the darkness, authorities said.
end in the 3 a.m. crash in west suburban Wheaton was 21-year-old Isidro Castaneda, whose 1994 Saturn bent almost in half when it slid into a tree, Wheaton Police said.
Castaneda fled when Carol Stream police tried to curb him for speeding on County Farm Road near North Avenue, authorities said.
Carol Stream police didn't chase him, officials said, but radioed ahead to Wheaton and Winfield police officers.
At one point, police said, Castaneda was driving without headlights on four-lane County Farm Road at about 100 mph even though officers weren't chasing him.
"There never was a pursuit,'' said Wheaton Police Cmdr. Terry Mee.
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Castaneda apparently lost control of the car as he tried to make a hard left turn at the T-intersection where County Farm Road meets Roosevelt Road. His car skidded off the road and into the neighboring Belleau Woods Forest Preserve, where its pbuttenger side struck a tree, police said.
Castaneda was taken to Central DuPage Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 3:38 a.m.
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Glad he's dead. Someday he would have crashed into another car and end some innocent person. All speeders are psychopaths.
