Crime & Safety
Update: Rollover Wreck Kills Joliet Man
The driver survived the crash and was jailed for allegedly driving under the influence.
LOCKPORT, IL — A Joliet man was killed in a rollover wreck the night after Christmas.
Joseph O. Essary, 33, was pronounced dead in the emergency room of Silver Cross Hospital shortly after 9 p.m. Saturday.
Essary was a passenger in a car that ran off the road and flipped over near the corner of Nobes Avenue and Route 171 about 7:30 p.m., according to the Illinois State Police.
The driver, Jamie Walsh, 30, was also injured and hospitalized, police said. Walsh was then taken to the Will County jail and charged with driving under the influence.
Walsh and Essary lived together on Fairmount Avenue, according to jail records.
It was not yet known Sunday morning why the woman drove off the road, according to police.
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