A man was rushed to the hospital in critical condition after he was left trapped and unresponsive in a head-on crash that also left a woman trapped and injured near Spring Grove.
The Spring Grove Fire Protection District and McHenry County Sheriff’s Office responded around 6:45 p.m. Friday to the area of Main Street and Villa Vista in unincorporated Spring Grove for a report of a vehicle crash with injuries.
Fox Lake Fire Protection District Battalion Chief Ted Damos said the crash occurred directly in front of Fox Lake Fire Station #4, 911 Main Street, at the curve in the roadway.
While the call originated in Spring Grove’s fire district, Fox Lake firefighters heard bystanders yelling for help and went outside to find a two-vehicle crash.
The cars had collided head-on and sustained heavy damage, Damos said.
The drivers of both vehicles were trapped inside and Fox Lake and Spring Grove firefighters began extricating them.
Damos said Spring Grove crews extricated a man, who was approximately in his 60s or 70s, from a four-door sedan.
Fox Lake crews extricated a woman from an SUV. A passenger in the SUV was not trapped and did not require medical treatment.
The male driver was transported by ambulance to Northwestern Medicine Hospital in McHenry.
He was unconscious and not breathing and paramedics were performing lifesaving measures on him, Damos said. It is unknown whether he survived after arriving at the hospital.
The female driver of the SUV suffered non-life-threatening injuries that were described as minor in nature.
Main Street was shut down between Cuneo Drive and State Park Road for several hours.
The McHenry County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the cause of the crash.