The driver killed in a single-vehicle crash on Tuesday in St. Charles Township has been identified as Francesco Sarnelli, 63, of Campton Hills, according to a news release from the Kane County Sheriff’s Office.
On Tuesday morning, a pickup truck traveling east on Silver Glen Road went off the road and rolled over at the curve at Old Homestead Road, according to officials. The reason the pickup truck went off the road is unknown, but witnesses at the scene told deputies that the vehicle had taken the curve at a high speed before it rolled over and came to a stop, officials said.
Emergency personnel responded to the scene and provided medical assistance to the driver, who was found in critical condition and ultimately pronounced dead at the scene, according to past reporting. The driver was the only person in the vehicle.
On Tuesday, while at Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital in Geneva, deputies assigned to the investigation notified the Kane County Coroner’s Office of the fatal crash, according to an update from the Kane County Sheriff’s Office on Thursday.
The individual killed in the crash was identified by the Kane County Coroner’s Office as Francesco Sarnelli, 63, of Campton Hills.
The preliminary cause of death is consistent with multiple traumatic injuries resulting from a vehicle crash, according to Thursday’s press release from the Sheriff’s Office.
The Coroner’s Office is working with the Sheriff’s Office on the investigation, which remains ongoing, officials said.
