Passenger impaled by a wood fence post in Mettawa crash.
The crash happened about 3:45 p.m., when the driver of a Kia sedan headed east on Route 60 blew through a red light at the intersection with Saint Marys Road and was struck by a southbound GMC pickup truck, Lake County sheriff's Deputy Chief Christopher Covelli said.
The person in the Kia's front passenger seat was impaled by a portion of the fence and suffered life-threatening injuries. Sheriff's deputies and police from Vernon Hills used an automated defibrillator on the victim, who later was taken by paramedics to Medicine Lake Forest Hospital, Covelli said.
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