Carbondale Alerts
Carbondale Police Press Release - Fatal Traffic Crash
NEWS RELEASE
City of Carbondale, Illinois
October 2, 2025
For Immediate Release
CARBONDALE – On October 2, 2025, at 1:56 a.m., City of Carbondale Police Officers responded to the intersection of East Pleasant Hill Road and South Wall Street for a report of a single-vehicle traffic crash. Officers learned a vehicle believed to be traveling south on South Wall Street failed to stop at the intersection of East Pleasant Hill Road. The vehicle then left the roadway and struck a tree, causing extensive damage to the vehicle. The vehicle also caught fire. The driver, Daryl L. Norwood, 38, of Carbondale, was determined to be deceased at the scene due to injuries he sustained from the crash. There were no passengers in the vehicle. The Carbondale Police Department was assisted on this investigation by the Carbondale Fire Department, the Jackson County Sheriff's Department, the Jackson County Coroner’s Office, the Southern Illinois University Department of Public Safety, and the Illinois State Police. Anyone with information about the incident is encouraged to contact the police department at the numbers listed below. The investigation remains active and ongoing.
Anyone with information about the incident is encouraged to contact the City of Carbondale Police Department at (618) 549-2121. You may also call the Carbondale/SIU Crime Stoppers anonymous tip line at (618) 549-COPS (2677) or the Murphysboro/Jackson County anonymous tip line at (618) 687-COPS (2677). Anonymous tips may also be made by selecting the “Crime Stoppers” tab on this website’s main page. Please help yourself and your county, its communities, and the university campus by using these numbers if you witness or have any information about a crime. Cash rewards for information that leads to an arrest are also made anonymously. Remember, crime doesn’t pay, but Crime Stoppers does! For more information about Crime Stoppers, please follow the QR Code.
The mission of the Carbondale Police Department is to work in partnership with our community to preserve life, protect human rights, protect property and improve quality of life by providing police service to all in a fair, sensitive, and professional manner.