Man charged in deadly DUI crash
A 23-year-old man has been charged in a deadly DUI crash he allegedly caused last spring after exiting the Eisenhower Expressway.
Antonio Ruiz was driving east in a red truck on April 11 when he got off Interstate 290 at the Austin Boulevard exit, Cook County prosecutors said Wednesday. He then allegedly started going the wrong way down an exit for westbound traffic.
Ruiz went on to collide with the driver’s side of 67-year-old Frances Poole’s car as she exited the expressway that morning, prosecutors said.
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A blood test administered at an area hospital following the crash showed Ruiz’s blood-alcohol level was 0.09 — slightly over the legal limit of 0.08, prosecutors said. Ruiz also allegedly had marijuana and cocaine in his system.