Traffic & Transit
Fatality Near Minooka: Lewis Professor Dies Returning From Church
Grundy County Coroner John Callahan announced the fatal wreck, killing the 56-year-old Lewis University computer science professor.
MINOOKA, IL — Grundy County Coroner John Callahan announced on Sunday that his agency with Grundy County Sheriff’s Department are investigating a deadly crash that claimed the life of a 56-year-old Minooka man, who is a professor at Lewis University in Romeoville.
Callahan said Saturday night's crash was at the intersection of O’Brien Road and Minooka Road.
Lucien Pideu Ngalamou had stopped at a stop sign for the southbound traffic of O’Brien Road and then proceeded to turn east onto Minooka Road when his vehicle was struck by a westbound vehicle. More details of the crash will be made available after it is reconstructed by the Grundy Sheriff’s Department, Callahan noted.
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"Mr. Ngalamou was a professor at Lewis University in Romeoville and was coming home from Church in Yorkville on Saturday evening," Callahan announced.
He was taken to the Morris Emergency Room, where he died shortly before midnight. The Lewis University website listed Dr. Dr. Lucien Ngalamou Pideu as being a computer science professor with a 1994 Ph.D. from Joseph Fourier University.
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