Two women killed, another injured in crash near Wauconda – Shaw Local

WAUCONDA — Two women were killed when the vehicle they were riding in drove in front of a dump truck on Fairfield Road Wednesday, authorities said. A third woman in her vehicle was also seriously injured.

According to a news release, around 8 a.m. May 8, Lake County sheriff’s deputies responded to Fairfield Road and Chardon Road, an unincorporated area near Wauconda, for a traffic accident with injuries.

Preliminary investigation shows a 2007 Mack dump truck driven by a 44-year-old Round Lake Park man was traveling north on Fairfield Road approaching Chardon Road. A 2007 Nissan Versa driven by a 48-year-old Waukegan woman was traveling west on Chardon Road while approaching Fairfield Road.

There is a stop sign for traffic on Chardon Road at Fairfield Road, but there is no stop sign or traffic control device for traffic on Fairfield Road at this intersection. The driver of the Nissan pulled into the intersection directly in front of the Mack truck, according to the release.

The front of the dump truck struck the driver’s side of the Nissan. The dump truck then rolled onto its side, spilling a load of loose concrete, police said.

The driver of the Nissan was pronounced dead at the scene. A backseat passenger in the Nissan, a 55-year-old woman from Round Lake Beach, was also pronounced dead at the scene. A passenger in the Nissan, a 45-year-old woman from Round Lake Beach, was taken to an area hospital with serious injuries that were later determined to be non-life-threatening. The driver of the dump truck was uninjured.

The women who died are 48-year-old Carmen Zeron of Waukegan and 55-year-old Angelica Juarez of Round Lake Beach. Autopsies were performed Wednesday at the Lake County Coroner’s Office and preliminary results indicate that Zeron and Juarez both died as a result of blunt force injuries in the accident.

The accident remains under investigation by the Lake County Sheriff’s Office Technical Accident Investigation Team.