92 year old Man dies after 'minor' accidentA 92-year-old man died from his injuries in what was originally thought to be a minor traffic crash in Schaumburg, an autopsy showed today.
Authorities discovered Harvey J. Piaskowski in his vehicle after it "tapped" another vehicle near Higgins Road and North Plum Grove Road after 10 a.m. on Friday, Schaumburg police said.
The collision caused a chain of events that ended with the elderly man's vehicle striking a guard rail and driving into a nearby ravine.
Despite the sequence of crashes, paramedics arriving at the scene found Piaskowski alert and talkative, without any signs of major injury, police said. Emergency crews took Piaskowski to Alexian Brothers Medical Center in Elk Grove Village, mostly as “a precaution,” said Schaumburg Police Sgt. John Nebl.
"There was no evidence at all that his injuries were so severe," Nebl said today.
But Piaskowski, of the 400 block of Lambert Drive in Schaumburg, was pronounced dead at 5:35 p.m. Friday at the suburban hospital, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.
An autopsy performed today confirmed that Piaskowski died of his multiple injuries and his death was called an accident.
Schaumburg police this afternoon couldn’t provide a status of their investigation.
Woman, 85, dies a month after crashAn 85-year-old southwest suburban woman died more than a month after a traffic crash that killed another 85-year-old woman, officials said today.
The woman, Genevieve Kaput of the 7300 block of West 57th Place in Summit, was pronounced dead Friday night at RML Specialty Hospital in Hinsdale, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.
An autopsy of Kaput, originally scheduled for today, was postponed until Sunday, an office spokesman said.
Kaput was one of two women injured in a two-car crash near West 55th Street and Plainfield Road in Countryside on April 20, according to published reports from around the time of the accident.
Kaput and the driver, Dolores Wagner, also 85, were making a turn at the intersection when they were struck by another car, news reports stated.
Both women were initially taken to Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood. Wagner, who lived at the same Summit home as Kaput, died at Loyola April 22, according to the medical examiner’s office. An autopsy confirmed that Wagner died from her crash-related injuries and that the death was an accident.
Summit police were unavailable for comment today.