Bail of $600,000 was set Monday for a man accused of fleeing a crash after blowing a stop sign in West Chicago while drunk and colliding with another car, killing the driver.

Alonso Huerta-Perez, 23, of the 100 block of Mora Road in Carpentersville, said he drank eight or nine beers before the crash, DuPage County Assistant State's Attorney Michael Fisher told Judge Neal Cerne.

Five other people were in Huerta-Perez's car when it went through a stop sign on Lester Avenue and Illinois Highway 59 about 2:30 a.m. Sunday and struck a car driven by Austin Weidner, 27, of Schaumburg, Fisher said. Weidner was pronounced dead at Central DuPage Hospital in Winfield.

Huerta-Perez and the others fled after the car overturned, but West Chicago police were able to apprehend him after a witness provided information, Fisher said.

Huerta-Perez is charged with leaving the scene of a fatal crash, "but we have his blood-alcohol analysis being worked on and we expect charges to be upgraded to aggravated drunk driving resulting in a death, which increases the penalty to a maximum of 14 years in prison," Fisher said during a bond hearing.