Lake County Sheriff’s Deputies responded to a report of a battery in progress about 6:10 p.m. February 26, 2023, which was reported to have initially occurred in the area of Green Bay Road and Wadsworth Road in Beach Park. The offender fled in a vehicle and the victim followed the offender to the area of Lewis Avenue and Yorkhouse Road, Waukegan.
Two responding sheriff’s deputies in separate vehicles were traveling southbound on Lewis Avenue with their emergency lights and sirens activated. As the sheriff’s deputies approached Edgewood Road in Waukegan, a Chevrolet pickup truck, driven by a 59-year-old man of North Chicago, was traveling eastbound on Edgewood Road. The driver of the pickup truck did not stop at the stop sign and drove directly in the path of the southbound sheriff’s deputies. The first sheriff’s deputy was able to swerve into the northbound lanes of traffic to avoid striking the pickup. The second sheriff’s deputy was unable to avoid hitting the pickup, and struck the pickup’s front driver’s side.
The sheriff’s deputy was injured in the crash, and was transported to Level 1 Trauma Center Advocate Condell Medical Center with serious, but non-life-threatening injuries. She remains hospitalized this morning.
The driver of the pickup truck was transported to Vista Medical Center in Waukegan with non-life-threatening injuries.
“One of our sheriff’s deputies was seriously injured in a crash because a thoughtless individual felt it was more important to drink a beer while driving, putting everyone on the roadway at risk, instead of driving safe. We say it time and time again, don’t drink and drive. We are all wishing our deputy a speedy recovery.”
— Sheriff John D. Idleburg
According to the Lake County Sheriff’s Office, the driver of the pickup truck indicated the last thing he remembered before the crash was opening a beer. Waukegan Police Department is investigating the traffic crash and any subsequent charges.
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