Obituary | Grace Diewald Cause of Death

Publish date: 2024-05-18

The two people killed in a west suburban crash involving a school bus on Monday afternoon have been identified.

Emil Diewald, 19, and Grace Diewald, 20, both of unincorporated St. Charles, were brother and sister, the Kane County Coroner’s Office said.

They were pronounced deceased at the scene after a crash in Campton Hills. It took place about 3:45 p.m. on Empire Road between Burlington Road and Route 47, the Kane County Sheriff’s Office said, and involved a Lexus and a school bus.

Kane County officials said a 2013 Lexus SUV was traveling east on Empire Road when it struck the back of a school bus that had 31 students and one driver on it at the time. The bus was from Central Community Unit School District 301, carrying students from Lily Lake Elementary School.

Police said there were four people inside the Lexus at the time of the crash. The driver, an 18-year-old man from Elgin, was taken to Delnor Hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

Grace Diewald was riding in the front passenger seat and her brother was in the back seat.

A 17-year-old girl from South Elgin in the back seat was taken to Delnor Hospital and then airlifted to Lurie Children’s Hospital with life-threatening injuries, officials said.

Officials did not immediately provide additional information Tuesday about the conditions of the other two injured.
None of the students on the school bus nor the bus driver were injured. All students were reunited with their parents and released at the scene, county officials said.

Grace and Emil Diewald were graduates of Burlington Central High School, ABC7 Chicago news partner theDaily Herald reported.

Friends remembered the siblings with fondness.

“I was actually calling Grace to ask if she wanted to hang out and wondering why she wasn’t answering,” said Krystal Nelson, 18, of South Elgin. “Their house was always the place to go.”

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