Flowers placed at the scene of 27000 block of Wilmot Road where two teenagers were killed when the SUV they rode in crashed into a tree Monday night in Antioch Township. | Michael Schmidt~Sun-Times Media
Antioch-02/18/13, Mon./27011 Wilmot Rd. A tow crew member works on securing a vehicle after a crash left a 16 year male driver, and a 17 year old female fatally injured after striking a tree in Antioch Monday night. | Joe Shuman~For Sun-Times Media
An uprooted tree in the 27000 block of Wilmot Road in Antioch and the site of a fatal crash of two teenagers on Monday evening. | Thomas Delany Jr.~Sun-Times Media ORG XMIT: CST1302190954263872
An uprooted tree in the 27000 block of Wilmot Road in Antioch and the site of a fatal crash of two teenagers on Monday evening. | Thomas Delany Jr.~Sun-Times Media
An uprooted tree in the 27000 block of Wilmot Road in Antioch and the site of a fatal crash of two teenagers on Monday evening. | Thomas Delany Jr.~Sun-Times Media
An uprooted tree in the 27000 block of Wilmot Road in Antioch and the site of a fatal crash of two teenagers on Monday evening. | Thomas Delany Jr.~Sun-Times Media
A damaged fence in the 27000 block of Wilmot Road in Antioch and the site of a fatal crash of two teenagers on Monday evening. | Thomas Delany Jr.~Sun-Times Media
A damaged fence in the 27000 block of Wilmot Road in Antioch and the site of a fatal crash of two teenagers on Monday evening. | Thomas Delany Jr.~Sun-Times Media
An uprooted tree in the 27000 block of Wilmot Road in Antioch and the site of a fatal crash of two teenagers on Monday evening. | Thomas Delany Jr.~Sun-Times Media
Tire marks along Wilmot Road in Antioch from a vehicle that crashed through a fence and uprooted a tree in the 27000 block of Wilmot Road the site of a fatal crash of two teenagers on Monday evening. | Thomas Delany Jr.~Sun-Times Media
A damaged fence in the 27000 block of Wilmot Road in Antioch and the site of a fatal crash of two teenagers on Monday evening. | Thomas Delany Jr.~Sun-Times Media
A damaged fence in the 27000 block of Wilmot Road in Antioch and the site of a fatal crash of two teenagers on Monday evening. | Thomas Delany Jr.~Sun-Times Media
Lake County Sheriff's Deputy in the 27000 block of Wilmot Road in Antioch with tire marks from a vehicle that crashed through a fence and uprooted a tree that killed two teenagers on Monday evening. | Thomas Delany Jr.~Sun-Times Media
Lake County Sheriff's Deputy in the 27000 block of Wilmot Road in Antioch with tire marks from a vehicle that crashed through a fence and uprooted a tree that killed two teenagers on Monday evening. | Thomas Delany Jr.~Sun-Times Media
Joel Wittkamp, 16, of Antioch, and Ashley Seay, 17, of Lindenhurst.
Antioch-02/18/13, Mon./27011 Wilmot Rd. Lake County Coroners work in the rain as the ready to load one of two people fatally injured in Monday nights accident in Antioch. | Joe Shuman~For Sun-Times Media
Antioch-02/18/13, Mon./27011 Wilmot Rd. Antioch Fire Personnel work on extraction of fatally injured driver and passenger. | Joe Shuman~For Sun-Times Media
Antioch-02/18/13, Mon./27011 Wilmot Rd. A Lake County Sheriffs Officer looks over accident scene after vehicle was pulled from tree. | Joe Shuman~For Sun-Times Media
Tim Staples talks about the fatal accident of two teenagers on his property in the 27000 block of Wilmot Road in Antioch. Killed in the Monday evening crash were Joel Wittkamp, 16, of Antioch and Ashley Seay, 17, of Lindenhurst. | Thomas Delany Jr.~Sun-Times Media
Tim Staples talks about the fatal accident of two teenagers on his property in the 27000 block of Wilmot Road in Antioch. Killed in the Monday evening crash were Joel Wittkamp, 16, of Antioch and Ashley Seay, 17, of Lindenhurst. | Thomas Delany Jr.~Sun-Times Media
Tim Staples next to a tree that was uprooted from a fatal accident of two teenagers on his property in the 27000 block of Wilmot Road in Antioch. Killed in the Monday evening crash were Joel Wittkamp, 16, of Antioch and Ashley Seay, 17, of Lindenhurst. | Thomas Delany Jr.~Sun-Times Media
Tim Staples talks about the fatal accident of two teenagers on his property in the 27000 block of Wilmot Road in Antioch that uprooted a tree. Killed in the Monday evening crash were Joel Wittkamp, 16, of Antioch and Ashley Seay, 17, of Lindenhurst. | Thomas Delany Jr.~Sun-Times Media
Flowers placed at the scene of 27000 block of Wilmot Road where two teenagers were killed when the SUV they rode in crashed into a tree Monday night in Antioch Township. | Michael Schmidt~Sun-Times Media
Joel Wittkamp, 16, of Antioch who died in a fatal car accident in the 27000 of Wilmot Road in Antioch on Monday evening. Wittkamp was drivng vehicle with passenger Ashley Seay, 17, of Lindenhurst who also died in crash. | Special to Sun-Times Media
Flowers placed at the scene of 27000 block of Wilmot Road where two teenagers were killed when the SUV they rode in crashed into a tree Monday night in Antioch Township. | Michael Schmidt~Sun-Times Media
Jake Borkowiz, 17, of Antioch pauses at the scene. He was friends with Joel, played Little League baseball with him and was in his high school English class. | Michael Schmidt~Sun-Times Media
Flowers placed at the scene of 27000 block of Wilmot Road where two teenagers were killed when the SUV they rode in crashed into a tree Monday night in Antioch Township. | Michael Schmidt~Sun-Times Media
Flowers placed at the scene of 27000 block of Wilmot Road where two teenagers were killed when the SUV they rode in crashed into a tree Monday night in Antioch Township. | Michael Schmidt~Sun-Times Media
After placing flowers Johathan and Desare Anderson of Antioch pause for a moment. Desare is friends of Joel's mother Amber. | Michael Schmidt~Sun-Times Media
A man who declined to give his name places a Walter Payton jersey at the scene. | Michael Schmidt~Sun-Times Media
Jake Borkowiz, 17, of Antioch pauses at the scene. He was friends with Joel, played Little League baseball with him and was in his high school English class. | Michael Schmidt~Sun-Times Media
Ashley Seay from the 2012 Lakes HIgh School yearbook.
ANTIOCH TOWNSHIP — They had just started a relationship, but Monday night that ended on a rural road under bad weather conditions. Now, family and friends of Joel Wittkamp, 16, of Antioch and Ashley Seay, 17, of Lindenhurst are trying to cope. Both high schools, …