Overview

• Deputies responded around 5 a.m. to Route 134 east of North Catherine Street in Ingleside.
• Preliminary findings say a westbound Honda crossed into oncoming traffic and hit an eastbound GMC work truck head-on.
• The Honda’s driver died at the scene and has not been identified, and investigators found an open whiskey bottle in his lap.
• The Honda had been reported stolen Tuesday from a gym in Fox Lake, according to the sheriff’s office.
• The GMC driver, a 44-year-old Johnsburg man, was hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries and is cooperating with investigators, while an autopsy and crash reconstruction proceed and South Middle School opened three hours late with morning programs canceled.