Man, 26, dies after crash near Gurnee

GURNEE -- Lake County Sheriff’s crash investigators are looking into a serious single-vehicle traffic crash near Gurnee.

About 2:05 a.m. March 8, Lake County Sheriff’s deputies responded to the area of Stearns School Road and Mill Creek Drive, unincorporated Gurnee, for a traffic crash, where someone was trapped in the vehicle.

Deputies arrived and found a Mercedes-Benz sedan with heavy damage, according to a news release.

Preliminary investigation shows the driver, a 26-year-old Gurnee man, was traveling east on Stearns School Road, approaching Mill Creek Drive.

For an unknown reason, the man drove off the south side of the roadway and struck a tree. The driver’s side of the vehicle sustained a significant amount of damage. It appears the man was not wearing a seat belt, according to the release.

Fire personnel freed the man from the vehicle, and he was taken to Advocate Condell Medical Center in Libertyville with critical, life-threatening injuries.

Despite care and treatment, the man succumbed to his injuries hours later and was pronounced deceased in the intensive care unit.

The Lake County Coroner’s Office was notified.

The deceased has been identified as 26-year-old Kyle Debevec, of Gurnee. Preliminary coroner’s investigation indicates Debevec’s death is consistent with blunt force injuries as a result of the crash.

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