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.
Kent Wildlife Rescue volunteer Jacob Endean, from Sheerness, had tragic drugs relapse, inquest hears
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Updated: 13:55, 21 January 2021
A young wildlife volunteer who died at his home in Sheerness had taken a fatal amount of MDMA, an inquest has concluded.
Jacob Endean, 21, was found unresponsive by his stepfather Andy Endean at around 7.30am on July 18.
Jacob Endean
Paramedics were unable to save him.
At an inquest at Maidstone s Archbishop s Palace on Tuesday, coroner James Dillon heard Mr Endean had overdosed on MDMA, commonly known as ecstasy. He had taken nearly five times the level known to be fatal.
The inquest heard Jacob had a history of drug and alcohol abuse and mental health issues that had started at the age of 15 or 16.