Crime & Safety
Coroner IDs Man, 30, Killed In Barrington Hills Crash
The collision happened Wednesday night on County Line Road and Bellwood Drive.
BARRINGTON HILLS, IL — The Lake County Coroner's Office has identified a 30-year-old Carpentersville man who died in a fiery crash in Barrington Hills on Wednesday night as Josue Campuzano-Cuin.
Preliminary results from an autopsy show Campuzano-Cuin died from injuries sustained in a car fire following the collision at about 9 p.m. in the area of County Line Road and Bellwood Drive, according to a news release from the coroner's office.
A Ford F-150 pickup truck collided head-on with a Hyundai Palisade and the truck caught fire, according to media reports. Campuzano-Cuin was driving the truck at the time of the collision.
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He was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the coroner's office news release.
The driver of the Hyundai, a 46-year-old Algonquin woman, was taken to a suburban hospital with serious injuries, according to the article.
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The cause of the crash remains under investigation.
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