Darien Woman Killed Monday Morning on Route 83 in Unincorporated Lemont
Woman was a passenger in a car driven by her husband on Route 83 near Archer Avenue in unincorporated Lemont when their car struck a gravel truck from behind, police say.
At about 6:10 a.m. Monday, a husband and wife driving southbound on Route 83 near the Cal Sag Canal bridge ran into the back of a gravel truck that had slowed for a stoplight up ahead, according to Frank Bilecki of the Cook County Sheriff’s Department. Antonia Lim, 74, of the 700 block of 71st St. in Darien, was pronounced dead later Monday morning at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn. Her 78-year-old husband, Santos, who was driving the 2011 Toyota Camry, was transported to Silver Cross Hospital in New Lenox in stable condition. According to Bilecki, the intial police investigation indicates Lim was driving his wife to work at a hospital in Blue Island when the accident occurred. “There did not appear to be any skid marks,” …
Jim Court
9:27 am on Saturday, January 5, 2013
I do not know the circumstances but I feel terrible for the husband who must live with this nightmarish thought. more ›