Family, friends remember teens klilled in ‘tragic accident’

Friends and family are remembering three former Plainfield North High School students who were killed Monday when a semitrailer truck struck their car in unincorporated Kendall County.

On Tuesday, some of those mourners visited the crash site at Schlapp Road and Route 126, where Plainfield residents Tyler Montgomery, 19, and Brian Herrera, 19, were both pronounced dead following the crash. Alexis Banuelos, 18, of Naperville, was taken to Rush-Copley Medical Center in Aurora, where she died later Monday, authorities said.

Among the visitors were Alexis parents, Ricardo and Raquel, who said they hold no one at fault for the tragic accident.

Police said the truck hit the teens car after Herrera pulled in front of it from a stop sign on southbound Schlapp Road. The car entered the intersection where the truck driver, heading east on Route 126, couldnt stop in time to avoid the collision, police said.

The truck driver did not have a stop sign. He was not cited.

We have no ill will toward anybody involved, Ricardo Banuelos said Tuesday. We know the truck driver did everything in his power to stop. Were just hurting right now.

Tyler and Alexis, who friends said were a couple, attended Joliet Junior College. All three teens became friends several years ago while attending Plainfield North.

School officials said Tyler graduated in 2010 and Alexis graduated a year later. Brian was last enrolled in one of Plainfield Norths alternative programs in early 2011, but school officials said he did not graduate.

Plainfield North is on summer break, so officials said they will not launch the crisis plan that typically would go into effect in response to deaths of students or recent alumni.

But former classmates and friends still are grieving.

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