A 27-year-old Chicago woman was in critical condition Sunday morning after a head-on collision this weekend on Route 12 in Volo, according to police.
Five people were injured in the crash that occurred at 4 p.m. Saturday, and four people have been treated and released from a hospital, according to reports.
The crash occurred on Route 12 just south of Route 120, when a Chevrolet Impala driven northbound by the Chicago woman traveled over the center median “for unknown reasons” and crashed into a southbound Kia Sedona van, said Lake County sheriff’s office spokesman Detective Christopher Covelli.
Both drivers had to be extricated from their vehicles by the Wauconda Fire Department, and the Chicago woman was transported by rescue helicopter to Advocate Condell Medical Center in Libertyville, where she remained in critical condition late Sunday morning, Covelli said.
The 44-year old Round Lake Beach man driving the Kia also was transported to Condell by helicopter with non-life threatening injuries, according to police.
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Three passengers in the Kia, a 39 year-old woman, a 5-year-old girl, and a 3-year-old boy, all of Round Lake Beach, were transported by ambulance to Good Shepherd Hospital in Barrington with non-life threatening injuries, according to reports.
Covelli said the driver of the van and all three passengers had been released from the hospital by Sunday morning.
An investigation into the crash is being run by the Lake County sheriff’s office Technical Crash Investigations Unit.
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