Crime & Safety
WI Woman Killed In Rear-End Crash In Lake County
The collision happened on Green Bay Road in Zion Saturday night.
LAKE COUNTY, IL — A Wisconsin woman was killed over the weekend in a rear-end crash in Zion.
The collision happened at about 10:45 p.m. Saturday in the area of Russell Road and Green Bay Road when a vehicle headed north on Green Bay Road rear-ended another vehicle, according to a news release from the Lake County Coroner's Office.
A passenger in the vehicle that struck the other vehicle, who has been identified as Judith Kidder, 68, of Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin, was taken to the Vista Medical Center East emergency room where she was pronounced dead, authorities said.
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Preliminary results from an autopsy show she died from blunt force injuries of the head and neck as a result of a crash.
The cause of the crash remains under investigation.
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