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According to multiple news outlets, a woman is dead after a car crashed into a semi truck Sunday night in Des Plaines, near Friendship Park.
Des
Plaines police said just before midnight, officers responded to the
area of Algonquin Road and Leslie Lane for a report of a motor vehicle
crash. There, officers found a passenger in a Toyota Prius who was
bleeding heavily from her leg.
The officers allegedly applied a tourniquet
to try to stop the bleeding. Fire crews arrived and took the victim to an area
hospital, where she died from her injuries. Police identified her as
49-year-old Nazly Rodriguez-Munoz of Des Plaines.
A preliminary
investigation indicated that the Prius, driven by a 28-year-old Des
Plaines woman, was heading eastbound on Algonquin Road approaching
Leslie Lane when she hit the back of a Volvo semi-truck.
The
Prius driver said the truck was parked along the south side of Algonquin
Road with no lights on. The semi driver told officers that he was
traveling eastbound on Algonquin Road at a slow speed.
No word on how fast the Prius was going or if the driver had her lights on nor if the semi-truck had it's light illuminated.
Conflicting versions of the crash will no doubt mean investigators will take a few days to determine guilt in this fatal accident.
