A man fleeing from police in a stolen car was killed Saturday when he crashed his vehicle into another car near Zion, according to the Lake County Sheriff’s Office.
Eight people in the other vehicle were hurt, including a 51-year-old Waukegan resident who was critically injured, police said. The identity of the dead man has not yet been released. Police said he was a 32-year-old Salem, Wisconsin resident.
According to police, the man was driving a stolen Lexus GS400 in Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin, when police tried to stop him at around 4:30 p.m. However, the man drove away at a high rate of speed.
Police deployed a tire deflation device near the Kilbourne and Russell roads intersection, and the device flattened one of the tires, but the man was able to drive away, police said.
Pleasant Prairie police ended their pursuit in the Zion area, but the driver continued moving at a high rate of speed, according to the sheriff’s office. The man ran a red light at the intersection of Kilbourne Road and Illinois Route 173 and collided with a GMC Yukon carrying eight people, authorities said.
Most of the people in the SUV are Waukegan residents, police said, and three are teenagers. An 8-year-old child was also hurt. Although the front-seat passenger was critically injured, the driver and other passengers did not sustain life-threatening injuries, police said.
The man driving the stolen car had an active warrant in Lake County for drug possession and was a suspect in several area burglaries, police said.
