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Two Men Flee Scene Of Fatal Humboldt Park Crash

CHICAGO (STMW) -- Police are searching for two men who ran away from a head-on crash that killed a 63-year-old woman in the Humboldt Park neighborhood Sunday morning.

Bessie English, 63, was driving westbound in a 1993 Ford Escort in the 2700 block of West Division about 7:50 a.m. when a tan 2010 Honda CRV crashed head-on into her 1993 Ford Escort, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner's office.

Two males were in the Honda, which had Wisconsin license plates, police said they both ran away from the crash and are not in custody, according to a community alert.

English, of the 900 block of North Waller, was taken to Presence Saints Mary and Elizabeth Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead at 9:22 a.m., the medical examiner's office said.

An autopsy Monday found she died of multiple injuries from the crash and ruled her death an accident, the medical examiner's office said.

Anyone with information on the crash is asked to call the CPD Major Accident Investigation Unit at (312) 745-4521.

(Source: Sun-Times Media Wire © Chicago Sun-Times 2014. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)

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