Bernard 'Bee' Chatman, 27, died after crashing his car into a bus in Chicago early Sunday morning
Four people, including a pregnant woman, have been killed when the driver of the car they were in lost control and collided head-on with a bus in a fiery crash.
The speeding car hit a parked vehicle before it veered out of control into an oncoming Chicago Transit Authority bus at about 6am on Sunday on the city's west side.
The male driver of the Buick Le Sabre and his three female passengers were all killed. Those in the backseat were completely trapped when the vehicle caught fire.
Bernard 'Bee' Chatman, 27, was behind the wheel of the car. Two of the women inside his car who died were sisters Ashley Moore, 25, and Tycika Fairley, 22. Family member s identified them as the victims on social media.
A third woman, aged 23, was also killed but has not yet been identified, ABC7 [4]reports.
The four victims were all rushed to hospital where they were pronounced dead.
Two of the women inside his car who died were sisters Ashley Moore, 25, (left) and Tycika Fairley, 22 (right). Fairley was pregnant with her third child, while Moore was a mother of three
The speeding car hit a parked vehicle before it veered out of control into an oncoming Chicago Transit Authority bus at about 6am on Sunday on the city's west side
Chatman had a young daughter, Moore had three children and Fairley was pregnant with her third child, according to ABC7.
People in the East Garfield Park neighborhood rushed to the scene and tried to pull victims out of the car, but they couldn't because smoke and flames around the car were too intense, according to witness Malinda Demery.
Another witness, Jbria Demery, said: 'I heard the tire skid and then I heard the impact. When I came outside, I just saw a bunch of the neighborhood people trying to open up the doors of the car but they couldn't get them open. The driver of the car was partially hanging out the window.'
Television footage showed the twisted wreckage of the car in the middle of the street in front of the No. 20 CTA bus, which appeared largely intact.
The bus driver and four passengers were taken to hospitals with non-life threatening injuries, according to a police spokesman.
The police department's major accident unit and the CTA were investigating the crash.
People in the East Garfield Park neighborhood rushed to the scene and tried to pull victims out of the car, but they couldn't because smoke and flames around the car were too intense
