{"id":914663,"date":"2026-07-05T18:31:15","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T18:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/914663\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T18:31:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T18:31:15","slug":"head-on-crash-leaves-71-year-old-woman-dead-son-injured-in-geneva-illinois","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/914663\/","title":{"rendered":"Head-on crash leaves 71-year-old woman dead, son injured in Geneva, Illinois"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A head-on crash this weekend left a 71-year-old woman dead and her adult son injured in the west Chicago suburb of Geneva.<\/p>\n<p>The driver police said was responsible for the crash is now facing multiple felony charges.<\/p>\n<p>The Geneva police and fire departments were called at 9:13 p.m. Saturday for the crash in the 1000 block of South Randall Road in Geneva.<\/p>\n<p>Geneva police said Christian Mares, 40, of Aurora, was driving a blue Chevrolet Camaro north on Randall Road, when his car veered outside the yellow center line into southbound traffic. He hit a red Nissan Versa being driven by the 71-year-old woman head-on, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The woman, whose name has not been released but whom police said was from Geneva, was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. Her son, a passenger in the Nissan, was taken to Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital in Geneva and then airlifted to Stroger Hospital of Cook County with life-threatening injuries, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The son was from Essexville, Michigan, and remained in critical condition Sunday, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Mares was charged with aggravated driving under the influence causing death and great bodily harm, aggravated driving under the influence with no insurance, reckless homicide, and aggravated use of a communication device. These charges are all felonies.<\/p>\n<p>Mares was also charged with several misdemeanors and traffic citations.<\/p>\n<p>Mares was taken to the Kane County Jail early Sunday morning to await a court hearing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A head-on crash this weekend left a 71-year-old woman dead and her adult son injured in the west&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":914664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5124],"tags":[8046,960,23858,149679,26366,5386,1818],"class_list":["post-914663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago","tag-car-crash","tag-chicago","tag-dui","tag-dui-crash","tag-geneva","tag-il","tag-illinois"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116868801425294666","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=914663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/914664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}