A speeding car hit a support beam of a Chicago elevated train track, crashing with enough force for the vehicle to split in two and killing four female passengers inside, authorities said Sunday.
Family and friends grieving on Mother's Day said all four women were mothers who were out for the night and had planned to attend a party.
The Cook County medical examiner's office said three died at the scene — Tyshyra Hines, 21; Bernadette Harris, 25; and Alicia Josten, 22. A fourth woman, 21-year-oldIeshia Nelson, was pronounced dead at an area hospital early Sunday.
Harris' sister, Sheila Harris, told the Chicago Tribune that her sister was a devoted parent to three children, ages 4, 6 and 8.
"She'd go above and beyond for her kids," she said. "She was an outstanding mother."
Chicago Police Department spokesman Hector Alfaro said the car was traveling fast when it hit a cement beam that supports Chicago Transit Authority train tracks on the city's West Side before it ran into a light pole.
Chicago fire officials said the vehicle crashed with enough force that it split in two. Police were investigating the cause of the crash, which happened about midnight Sunday.
The four women were headed to a party, Nelson's mother, Yvette Harris, told Chicago's WBBM-Radio. She said her daughter had a 2-year-old son, and she had not yet told him the news.
"I took him to his grandparents' last night, because he couldn't go to the hospital with me," Harris said. "I don't know what I'm going to say."
Exd 20:3- Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
Exd 20:4- Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness [of any thing] that [is] in heaven above, or that [is] in the earth beneath, or that [is] in the water under the earth:
Exd 20:5- Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God [am] a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth [generation] of them that hate me;
Exd 34:14- For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name [is] Jealous, [is] a jealous God:
Jer 7:18- The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead [their] dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
Amo 5:21- I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies
Exd 20:4- Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness [of any thing] that [is] in heaven above, or that [is] in the earth beneath, or that [is] in the water under the earth:
Exd 20:5- Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God [am] a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth [generation] of them that hate me;
Exd 34:14- For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name [is] Jealous, [is] a jealous God:
Jer 7:18- The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead [their] dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
Amo 5:21- I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies
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