LAKE COUNTY, IL — A 24-year-old Chicago man faces charges for driving while under the influence of drugs in a three-vehicle collision that happened in March in Lake County.
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Jariah Terrell, of the 11300 block of South Aberdeen Street, has been charged with DUI-drugs, driving with an intoxicating compound in blood/urine, prohibited amount of cannabis concentration in blood within two hours of driving and obstructing identification.
Terrell has been behind bars since March 8 — two days following the collision in Mettawa. She is being held on a $400,000 bail for retail theft and aggravated fleeing charges.
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At about 3:45 p.m. on March, 6, Terrell was behind the wheel of a 2018 Kia Optima, fleeing a retail theft at an Ulta Beauty in Vernon Hills, when she ran a red light at the intersection of Route 60 and Saint Mary’s Road, police said.
According to a sheriff’s office news release, she was speeding and driving recklessly when the Kia hit a 2012 GMC Sierra, which was headed south on Saint Marys Road.
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The GMC then collided with a 2016 Toyota 4-Runner, which was northbound on Saint Marys Road, waiting to turn left onto westbound Route 60. The Kia went off the roadway and ran into a wooden fence, according to a news release from the sheriff’s office.
Terrell was taken to Advocate Condell Medical Center with injuries that are not considered life-threatening. A front seat passenger in the Kia was impaled by the wooden fence post, which ended up going through the windshield during the crash, and transported to Condell with critical, life-threatening injuries, police said.
The driver of the GMC, a 34-year-old Round Lake Beach man, was taken to Lake Forest Hospital with injuries that were not considered life-threatening. The driver of the Toyota, a 60-year-old man from Watervliet, Michigan, and a passenger, a 23-year-old Riverwoods man, were not injured.
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