3-Car Wreck Claims 1 Man’s Life

A Peotone man died at the hospital 12 hours after he was injured in a three-vehicle wreck near Frankfort.

Charles Sharp, 57, died in the intensive care unit of SIlver Cross Hospital in New Lenox shortly after 1 a.m. Thursday.

A little after 1 p.m. Wednesday, Sharp crashed his Mercury Grand Marquis head-on into a Cadillac sport utility vehicle near the intersection of Center and Pauling roads.

Sharp’s car went into oncoming traffic and collided with the Cadillac after hitting a Chevy Malibu that had blown through a stop sign, police said.

Will County deputies responding to the crash found the Malibu in a ditch, police said, and the Mercury and Cadillac nose-to-nose.

Sharp and the driver of the Malibu, 68-year-old Donna Dust of Beecher, were taken to Silver Cross. The driver of the Cadillac, Nancy Dixon, 66, of Manteno, went to Riverside Hospital in Kankakee. Dixon was treated and released from care, police said.

All three drivers were responsive when deputies arrived, police said. Sharp had reportedly suffered extensive bruising to his arms, face and forehead.

Deputies spoke with Sharp at the hospital, police said, but Silver Cross staff told them he was bleeding internally and had to go into emergency surgery.

Dust was charged with disregarding a stop sign.

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