Driver livestreams herself on TikTok as she apparently hits and kills man in Chicago | Chicago
Authorities are investigating a newly surfaced video that suggests a woman who struck and killed a man while driving in the Chicago suburb of Zion, Illinois, on Monday night was livestreaming on TikTok at the time of the crash.
The video in question was reportedly shot by a user on Zion and shows a woman behind the wheel of a car reacting to a loud noise by saying, “Fuck, fuck, fuck… I just hit someone.”
according to Lake and McHenry County ScannerLt. Paul Kehrli, Zion police department investigative commander, who first reported the video. in question Drugs and alcohol are not suspected to be factors in Monday’s crash, and the 43-year-old female driver involved remained at the scene to speak with authorities.
The Lake County State’s Attorney’s Office told Scanner on Friday afternoon that the agency had been made aware of the video but could not comment further due to an ongoing investigation. The office stopped short of specifying exactly who made the agency aware of the video.
Studies over the years have shown that cell phone use while driving increases the likelihood of a serious accident or worse.
Screen recording of TikTok live broadcast video The video, posted on Monday, was posted on the social media app on Friday morning and showed user “Tea_Tyme_3” talking on her phone before a loud noise. The live feed was quickly disconnected after the noise caused the woman to swear, a child to ask what was happening, and another to ask the driver if he was okay.
User, this reportedHe deleted the biography section where he previously stated that he was in Zion, Illinois, changed his name and made his account private.
A. thread A separate incident on the Reddit platform was started by a user who said he saw the video being livestreamed and wondered if something fatal had happened. News later confirmed the user’s worst fears, as the user put it.
“It feels like I accidentally witnessed the moment someone’s life was taken and now I can’t stop thinking about the victim and how preventable it was,” the user said. “I keep repeating that voice in my head.”
The user also said on TikTok that the person driving was “not paying attention to the road because he was reading comments and grinning at his phone.”
The Reddit user also wrote, “A man died because he wanted to get attention from a live stream.”
Police said Monday’s crash occurred around 5:30 p.m. Darren Lucas, 59, of nearby Beach Park, was unresponsive after being shot and later died in a hospital emergency room from blunt force injuries he suffered as a result of the accident, the local coroner’s office said in a statement.
Lucas’ son-in-law Chris King said Lake and the McHenry County Scanner said news of the video made his family “hold our loss tighter to our hearts.”
“We will continue to pray for what the driver is going through,” King reportedly said. “We’re trying to find ways to live without someone we care about so much.”
