A Lake County man was killed late Monday by what investigators say was a hit-and-run driver.
According to a statement from the Lake County Sheriff’s Office, James A. Spicak, 68, of the 16000 block of West Pope Boulevard in unincorporated Prairie View, died sometime before 11 p.m. Monday night. The report said a vehicle was traveling west on West Pope near North Eugene Avenue.
“The vehicle struck several mailboxes and also struck Spicak, who was in the area of his mailbox,” the report said.
Prairie View is an unincorporated portion of Lake County near Lincolnshire and Buffalo Grove.
Detective Christopher Covelli, spokesman for the Lake County Sheriff’s Office, said Tuesday a passerby found Spicak around 11 p.m. Monday. An ambulance rushed Spicak to Advocate Condell Medical Center in Libertyville, where he was pronounced dead, according to the statement.
Police have yet to find any witnesses to the crash, Covelli said, but early work has concluded that Spicak was struck by a car. Covelli said police are searching the area in hopes of finding an outdoor camera that might have caught the incident. He also said police were not certain what Spicak was doing when the car struck him.
Covelli asked that any one with information on the crash call the Lake County Sheriff’s Office at 847-549-5200 or Lake County Crime Stoppers at 847-662-2222.
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