A Romeoville man was killed early Saturday morning in a two-vehicle crash on the Stevenson Expressway close to west suburban Lyons, in accordance with the Illinois State Police.
Killed was Amarildo Ponce, 53, in accordance with the Cook dinner County health worker’s workplace.
The collision occurred simply earlier than 1:30 a.m. on the southbound Interstate 55 close to First Avenue, authorities stated.
Ponce was behind the wheel of a Honda Civic touring south on the interstate within the heart lane when it struck a Subaru SUV touring beside it, state police stated in a information launch.
Ponce was taken to an space hospital the place he was pronounced useless about 50 minutes later, in accordance with the health worker’s workplace. No situation was given for the second driver.
An post-mortem carried out Sunday decided that Ponce died from a number of blunt drive accidents from the collision, and the loss of life was dominated an accident.
All southbound lanes on the Stevenson have been closed for a number of hours as authorities investigated the crash, with visitors diverted off at First Avenue, authorities stated.
A doable reason for the crash wasn’t given.
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