UPDATE: Arlington Heights Woman Killed in Wheeling Crash
A semitrailer truck hit the woman's vehicle on Palatine and Wheeling Roads in Wheeling just before 11:30 p.m. Wednesday.
An Arlington Heights woman is dead after a Wednesday collision between her passenger vehicle and a Freightliner sem-trailer truck at Palatine and Wheeling Roads in Wheeling. The crash occurred at 11:26 p.m. Wednesday, according to a press release from the Wheeling Police Department, and involved the 2010 semi-trailer and a 2002 Mazda Protoge driven by the 55-year-old woman who was killed. Deputy Chief John Teevans of the Wheeling Police Department said the identity of the victim will be withheld until all family notifications have been made. Police have determined that the male driver of the truck, a 57-year-old man from Nichols, Wisconsin, was travelling eastbound on Palatine Frontage and then made a left turn onto northbound Wheeling …
