1:34 p.m. CDT, August 9, 2011

Farzana Ali, left, and Sherali Shalwani were killed on the Reagan Memorial Tollway Saturday by a car going the wrong way. (Family photos)

Cash was seen flying out the windows of a red Porsche on the Ronald Reagan Memorial Tollway shortly before the car headed in the wrong direction and collided with another car, killing two people, officials say.

While witnesses have said the driver of the Porsche was throwing money out the window, state police would only say that "U.S. currency (was) emanating  from the vehicle."

One of the witnesses, Danita Eisenbise, from Aurora, said she was traveling east on I-88 to visit her sister Saturday evening when she spotted a late-model red Porsche driving slowly near the Route 59 exit.

“I started seeing money flying all over the road,” she said. “I thought it was obviously very strange.”

She saw three cars quickly pull off to the shoulder, probably to pick up the cash.

Meanwhile, the Porsche was swerving down the tollway, she said. “As I was going past him, he was rifling around his passenger seat and picked up a handful of cash and threw it out the window,” she said.

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