A man died Thursday evening after the car he was driving slammed into a tree and caught fire in west suburban Aurora.
Christian J. Huerta, 23, of Aurora, was driving an Infiniti G35 west at 6:25 p.m. on Diehl Road near Molitor Road, when he lost control of the car, according to Aurora police. The car hit a fiber optics box before colliding with a tree on the north side of Diehl.
The force of the collision caused the car to burst into flames, police said. Firefighters put out the fire and pulled Huerta out of the car, but he was pronounced dead at the scene. Police initially said the car flipped over before igniting.
The Kane County Coroner’s Office was investigating the crash, police said.
