The Will County sheriff’s office is looking for witnesses to a hit-and-run Friday that killed a 65-year-old Lockport woman on 159th Street in Homer Glen.
Sheriff deputies responded to a call of an injured person on 159th Street between Gougar and Cedar roads just after 6 p.m. Friday.
Officers said a driver was heading east on 159th Street when they hit a dog on the road, according to an initial report. When the driver who hit the dog stopped, they also found an injured person on the road, who had been hit by another vehicle that left the scene, police said.
The driver who hit the dog and another passerby called 911 and tried to help the injured pedestrian, who died at 6:54 p.m. at Silver Cross Hospital in New Lenox, according to the Will County sheriff’s and coroner’s offices.
Will County Coroner Laurie Summers identified the woman as Louise M. Vieni, 65, of Lockport.
Police ask anyone who might have witnessed the crash to call the Will County sheriff’s office at 815-727-8575. They also are asking residents to check their video surveillance systems for anything suspicious.
The crash Friday in Homer Glen was one of several fatal accidents involving pedestrians in Will County in the last few days, according to the coroner’s office and police reports.
Bolingbrook police reported a fatal accident at 9:27 p.m. Friday in the 400 block of North Frontage Road in which a pedestrian was struck by a vehicle. Marcus Marks, 52, of Chicago was pronounced dead at the scene, Bolingbrook police said in a news release.
The Will County coroner’s office also reported two pedestrian fatalities in Romeoville this month.
Kimberly J. Glista, 50, of Romeoville died at 11:45 p.m. Thursday at the intersection of state Route 53 and Alexander Circle in Romeoville as a result of a pedestrian, motor vehicle crash.
Brandon Mercado-Morales, 25, of Romeoville, died at 1:31 a.m. March 1. According to the coroner’s office, Mercado-Morales was a pedestrian who was hit by a car being driven south on Interstate 55 near mile marker 254.
Michelle Mullins is a freelance reporter for the Daily Southtown.
