Five-vehicle crash near Antioch leaves 1 person critically injured

ANTIOCH – Lake County Sheriff’s crash investigators are investigating a five-vehicle crash July 25 that left one person critically injured, police said.

About 6:05 p.m., Lake County Sheriff’s deputies responded to Route 173 east of Route 45 near Antioch for a traffic crash with injuries, according to a news release. Five vehicles were involved.

Preliminary investigation shows a Ford F-550 hauling an excavator was traveling west on Route 173, approaching Route 45.

The driver of the Ford, a 52-year-old Waukegan man, failed to slow down for traffic stopped at the red light. The front of the Ford struck the back of a Nissan Versa, driven by a 23-year-old Savoy man.

The Nissan struck a stopped Volkswagen Atlas driven by a 47-year-old man from Twin Lakes, Wisconsin. The Volkswagen was pushed into a Chevrolet Silverado driven by a 39-year-old Woodstock man.

The force and momentum of the Ford caused the Nissan to sideswipe a stopped Kia K5 driven by a 60-year-old Antioch man.

A rear-seat passenger in the Nissan, a 24-year-old Champaign woman, was taken by helicopter to Advocate Condell Medical Center with life-threatening injuries.

The driver of the Nissan and a front-seat passenger in the Nissan, a 25-year-old Champaign man, were taken to Advocate Condell Medical Center in Libertyville with injuries that were not life-threatening.

The driver of the Volkswagen was taken to Froedtert Pleasant Prairie Hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening.

The driver of the Ford was taken to Advocate Condell Medical Center with injuries that were not life-threatening.

The drivers of the Chevrolet and Kia were not injured.

The crash remains under investigation by the Lake County Sheriff’s Office Technical Crash Investigations Unit.