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Trenton Shearer, 21 -- Car Accident

Published Friday, April 14, 2006 by Admin | E-mail this post

[4/14/06]

Two men were killed and a teenage girl was seriously injured early Friday when the car they were in became airborne, spun out of control and struck a tree along a dark road near Burlington in western Kane County, authorities said.

Trenton Shearer, 21, of Sycamore, the driver, and James Walker, 20, of Carpentersville were killed. Rachel Olson, 17, of Sycamore was in serious condition in Provena St. Joseph Hospital, Elgin.

Shearer and Walker were pronounced dead at the scene on Engel Road in Burlington Township, Coroner Charles West said.

The results of toxicology tests are not expected to be available for a few weeks. West said speed appeared to have been a factor.

A sibling of Olson's identified Walker as the teen's boyfriend and Shearer as "her best friend." Olson is a senior at Sycamore High School.

Shearer, who worked the late shift at a boxmaking company in DeKalb, was engaged to Walker's sister Marlene, said his sister, Dawn Keding of West Chicago.

Speaking on behalf of her parents, longtime Sycamore residents Allen and Theresa Shearer, Keding described her brother, the third of five Shearer children, as "a great boy."

"He had a lot of passion for life. He loved his family and friends and always stood up for the little guy," Keding said.

She said her brother had worked late, and she believed he and the others "were going to see some friends" when the crash occurred just before 2:30 a.m. Friday.

Based on preliminary findings, sheriff's investigators reported that the 1994 Saturn was southbound on Engel Road at the Canadian National Railroad tracks near Plank Road when it went airborne while going over a hill on the north side of the tracks.

Shearer apparently lost control and drove off the east side of Engel Road for several yards before hitting a tree, investigators said.

West said both men were ejected and the car ricocheted off the tree and back onto two-lane Engel Road. He said Shearer's car spun 180 degrees after leaving the road and was headed backward when it hit the tree. Olson was not ejected, he said.

Based on preliminary autopsy results, West said, Shearer died of neck injuries. Blunt neck and pelvic trauma caused Walker's death, West said.

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