Elgin house hit by car, passenger dies
Marcel Martinez-Ayala, 28 of Carpentersville, was killed early Saturday morning riding in a car that crashed into a house in Elgin, Illinois.
Ayala, was pronounced dead at Sherman Hospital in Elgin. He was a front seat passenger. The driver of the car was also taken to Sherman Hospital with non-life threatening injuries according to Elgin police.
Police arrived at the accident scene shortly before 1:30 a.m. Police said a 1993 Nissan Altima was driving westbound on Chicago street, when it jumped the curb and struck the house located at 636 E. Chicago and stopped outside the residence at 622 E. Chicago.
The porch on the front of the house was damaged in the crash and the house was deemed uninhabitable. No one was home at the time of the crash.
