A 19-year-old woman suffered critical injuries and two others were also injured after a pickup truck t-boned a car on Route 41 near Gurnee Friday morning, police said.
The Lake County Sheriff’s Office and Gurnee Fire Department responded around 11 a.m. Friday to Route 41 and Stearns School Road in unincorporated Gurnee for a vehicle crash with injuries.
Sheriffโs deputies arrived and located three vehicles with heavy damage, according to Lake County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Chief Christopher Covelli.
A preliminary investigation shows a 2019 Ford F-150, driven by a 77-year-old Lindenhurst man, was traveling southbound on Route 41.
The Ford began driving through the intersection at Stearns School Road.
A northbound 2012 Ford Focus, driven by a 19-year-old Zion woman, attempted to make a left turn onto Stearns School Road, Covelli said.
The Ford F-150 t-boned the Ford Focus after the Ford Focus drove directly in front of it.
The Ford Focus then struck a 2010 Honda Pilot, which was stopped facing eastbound on Stearns School Road just west of Route 41, Covelli said.
Firefighters had to extricate two people from the wreckage.
The driver of the Ford Focus was transported to Advocate Condell Medical Center in Libertyville with critical injuries.
Covelli said the driver of the Ford F-150 was transported to Vista Medical Center East in Waukegan with minor injuries.
The driver of the Honda, a 42-year-old North Chicago woman, was transported to Advocate Condell Medical Center with minor injuries.
Part of Route 41 and Stearns School Road remains shut down while investigators work at the scene.
The crash remains under investigation by the Lake County Sheriffโs Office Technical Crash Investigations Unit.