39-year old Eric Hazelwonder of Jerseyville is facing two counts of operating a watercraft under the influence of drugs and alcohol.  

Hazelwonder was involved in a boating accident this summer on Lake Lou Yaeger in Litchfield.  Hazelwonder started the boat and put it in reverse without realizing that his 15-year old daughter, Haley Faye Hazelwonder, was in the lake behind the boat.  Haley Faye was struck by the boat's propellers and had to be taken to St. Francis Hospital in Litchfield.  His daughter was pronounced dead at the hospital after the accident.  

Hazelwonder is being held in jail on a $100,000 bond for the boating while intoxicated charges.  

Last week, four people were injured and hospitalized after the second story rear porch of a home located on the 3700 block of North Ashland collapsed.  Witnesses to the collapse said that it occurred during a house warming party.  The porch was holding ten people when it collapsed.

Chicago buildings department spokesperson Bill McCaffrey described the porch as "an older porch, several decades old".

One woman hurt in the accident filed a lawsuit against the owner of the property.  The suit claims that the owner of the building did not make sure that their property, the porch specifically, followed the City of Chicago's property regulations.

If you or someone you know has been injured in a porch or deck collapse, contact the Chicago porch collapse lawyers of Friedman & Bonebrake, P.C. at 312-466-8200 to learn more about your rights.

Sunday afternoon, a man was killed in a three-car accident on Interstate-80 near south Mokena.  Witnesses say the accident occurred when a black pickup truck swerved and rear-ended a green car.  The truck then proceeded to jump over a three-foot tall divider and hit another pickup truck head-on in oncoming westbound traffic.

The green car that was rear-ended burst into flames after the collision.  Two witnesses tried to open the car's doors and help the driver out but it was too late.  Officials declared the driver dead at the scene of the accident.

Fire and emergency officials treated two people for minor injuries at the scene of the accident and three others refused treatment.  

Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family and friends of the man lost in this tragic car accident. 

24-year old Gabriella Cedillo, a bank teller working as an extra for "Transformers 3", was injured in an accident on set over the summer.  'Transformers' has been filming in downtown Chicago for the past several months.

Cedillo was driving her 2006 Toyota through the set when a cable snapped and broke through her windshield.  The metal cable hit Cedillo in the head and she suffered serious brain injury.  Cedillo went to Loyola Medical Center for brain surgery and remains there in a medically induced comma.

Our thoughts and prayers are with Cedillo as she recovers from the accident.