{"id":102986,"date":"2026-01-17T03:31:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T03:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/102986\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T03:31:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T03:31:31","slug":"woman-killed-in-manhattan-car-and-school-bus-identified-nbc-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/102986\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman killed in Manhattan car and school bus identified \u2013 NBC Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 24-year-old woman was killed when a head-on collision occurred between a school bus and a car on Thursday morning in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcchicago.com\/news\/local\/school-bus-crash-in-suburban-manhattan-leaves-1-dead-11-hurt-roads-closed-until-further-notice\/3876609\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">suburban Manhattan,<\/a> authorities said. <\/p>\n<p>The crash happened at 8:17 a.m. CT near the intersection of Manhattan Monee and Kankakee Roads, the Manhattan Fire Protection District said in a release. According to the release, the bus was transporting Manhattan School District students. The driver of the passenger vehicle was pronounced dead, Illinois State Police said. <\/p>\n<p>The Will County Coroner&#8217;s Office identified her as Makenna M. Maurisak, 24, of Manhattan. An autopsy was set to take place on Friday to determine the manner and cause of death. <\/p>\n<p>The bus was carrying 10 students and one driver, officials said. The students and driver were evaluated at the scene and transported to nearby hospitals &#8220;due to the severity of the accident,&#8221; the fire district added.<\/p>\n<p>Video captured by NBC Chicago&#8217;s Sky 5 helicopter showed the school bus being towed away from the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The crash remained under investigation by Illinois State Police as of Friday evening. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 24-year-old woman was killed when a head-on collision occurred between a school bus and a car on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63,7057],"class_list":{"0":"post-102986","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-manhattan","9":"tag-manhattan-headlines","10":"tag-manhattan-news","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-nyc","14":"tag-will-county"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}