A Wauconda man died after he was critically injured in a rollover crash with a utility pole that left his truck destroyed near Antioch Monday afternoon, the sheriff said.
The Lake County Sheriff’s Office and Antioch Fire Protection District responded around 1:10 p.m. Monday to the area of West Grass Lake Road and Broadway Avenue in unincorporated Antioch for a vehicle crash with injuries.
Deputies arrived and located a single-vehicle crash involving a heavily damaged GMC Sierra, according to Lake County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Chief Christopher Covelli.
A preliminary investigation shows the GMC was traveling westbound on Grass Lake Road when it left the roadway for an unknown reason.
The GMC struck a utility pole and rolled over, Covelli said. The pole and wires were brought down.
The driver of the vehicle, a 37-year-old Wauconda man, had already been removed from the vehicle by bystanders when emergency crews arrived, Covelli said.
He suffered critical injuries and a LifeNet medical helicopter was requested.
The man was in too unstable of a condition to be flown when the helicopter arrived.
The medical helicopter crew assisted paramedics in the ambulance ground transporting him to Advocate Condell Medical Center in Libertyville.
Covelli said the 37-year-old man died at the hospital from his injuries.
The Lake County Coroner’s Office is scheduling an autopsy on the victim, whose identity is being withheld.
Grass Lake Road was shut down for several hours into Monday evening.
The crash remains under investigation by the Lake County Sheriff’s Office Technical Crash Investigations Team.