A person died after affected by warmth stroke and crashing right into a automobile in Logan Square throughout final weekend’s warmth wave.
About 4:55 p.m. July 19, officers responded to a crash within the 3600 block of West Palmer Street and located Adam Wrona, 56, within the driver’s seat of a Lexus, Chicago police and the Cook County medical expert’s workplace stated. He appeared to have a “medical emergency.”
The Lexus had struck a parked purple Toyota truck, and Wrona was taken to Saints Mary and Elizabeth Medical Center in an unknown situation, authorities stated. He was pronounced lifeless at 6:23 a.m. July 21. He lived in Schiller Park.
An post-mortem Thursday decided he died from problems of warmth stroke with coronary heart illness as a contributing issue, the medical expert’s workplace stated. His demise was dominated an accident.
The National Weather Service issued an “excessive heat” warning from July 18 by means of July 20.
Three different heat-related deaths have been reported to date this season.