A woman was impaled by a post when the car in which she was riding crashed while fleeing from an alleged shoplifting incident Monday in Mettawa, according to the Lake County Sheriff’s Office.
The woman was impaled after her car ran into a fence after it was struck at the intersection of Illinois Route 60 and St Mary’s Road after running a red light. She remained in critical condition Tuesday, police said.Police said she was the front seat passenger in a 2018 Kia Optima that was fleeing around 3:45 p.m. from a retail theft incident in Vernon Hills, police said. The driver of the Kia was headed east on Route 60 at a high rate of speed and driving recklessly, according to authorities.
The driver disregarded the stop light at St. Mary’s Road and was struck in the intersection by a southbound pickup truck. The Kia left the roadway and ran into a wooden fence, and the woman was impaled.The pickup truck then hit an SUV that was stopped as its driver was waiting to turn onto Route 60. The woman in the Kia was transported to Advocate Condell Medical Center in Libertyville with critical, life-threatening injuries. The driver and another passenger were transported with less serious injuries, police said.
The pickup driver, a Round Lake man, suffered non-life-threatening injuries and was taken to a hospital. Neither person in the SUV was injured.
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