Washington Truck Accidents

Elderly Man Killed in Wreck

An unidentified 93-year-old man was killed in a two-vehicle accident in Gurnee Wednesday, and then the Gurnee ambulance taking another seriously injured crash victim to the hospital was hit in Libertyville, slightly injuring a firefighter/paramedic.

The Gurnee accident was a head-on collision with a pickup truck at Cemetery Road and Washington Street in the early afternoon. The 93-year-old man was a passenger in a vehicle driven by his 90-year-old wife, said Lake County Coroner Dr. Richard Keller. He was pronounced dead at the scene at 3:30 p.m., he said.

The Gurnee accident was a head-on collision with a pickup truck at Cemetery Road and Washington Street in the early afternoon. The 93-year-old man was a passenger in a vehicle driven by his 90-year-old wife, said Lake County Coroner Dr. Richard Keller. He was pronounced dead at the scene at 3:30 p.m., he said.

Gurnee police said the older couple were in a 2005 Chevrolet Cobalt around 2:45 p.m. traveling east on Washington Street when it skidded into the westbound traffic near Cemetery Road and struck a 1999 Ford F-250 pick-up truck.

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