UPDATE: Yesterday, the Kane County Coroner positively identified the man killed during a single-vehicle accident Tuesday morning in St. Charles Township. The victim was 63-year-old Francesco Sarnelli of Campton Hills.
An external examination and x-rays have been performed, and toxicology samples have been collected and sent to a forensics lab for analysis. The preliminary cause of death is consistent with multiple traumatic injuries due to a motor vehicle crash.
The Coroner’s Office is cooperating with the Kane County Sheriff’s Office in the ongoing investigation.
An as-yet-unidentified man was killed Tuesday morning when he apparently lost control of the pickup truck he was driving just west of Randall Road in St. Charles township.
According to the Kane County Sheriff’s office, the accident occurred at approximately 8:00am Tuesday morning at the intersection of Silver Glen Road and Old Homestead Road.
Preliminary findings indicate that a 2008 blue pickup truck was traveling eastbound on Silver Glen Road when the driver exited the roadway for unknown reasons at the curve on Old Homestead Road and rolled the vehicle. Several witnesses to the single-vehicle crash at the scene informed deputies that the blue pickup had taken the curve at a high rate of speed before rolling the vehicle and coming to a stop.
Emergency personnel provided medical assistance to the single occupant, who was found to be in critical condition. The driver was pronounced deceased at the scene of the crash.
The identity of the deceased individual involved in the crash has not been released pending notification of the next of kin.
The Kane County Sheriff’s Investigations Division is actively investigating the incident.
