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Driver 'just went through' pedestrian in fatal Lake View hit-and-run, witness says

First publishedAug 13, 23:19 UTC
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<p>A man charged with drunk driving in a fatal crash allegedly didn't stop for a pedestrian crossing the road in Lake View and "just went through her," a witness told the Sun-Times.</p><p>Sarah Milcarek, 25, was thrown in the air and crashed through the vehicle's rear windshield, landing in its backseat, <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2026/08/11/motorist-flees-causes-multiple-crashes-in-fatal-lake-view-hit-and-run" target="_blank" >according to prosecutors</a>. The vehicle kept going and crashed into another car, then a tree.

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<p>A man charged with drunk driving in a fatal crash allegedly didn't stop for a pedestrian crossing the road in Lake View and "just went through her," a witness told the Sun-Times.</p><p>Sarah Milcarek, 25, was thrown in the air and crashed through the vehicle's rear windshield, landing in its backseat, <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2026/08/11/motorist-flees-causes-multiple-crashes-in-fatal-lake-view-hit-and-run" target="_blank" >according to prosecutors</a>. The vehicle kept going and crashed into another car, then a tree. Milcarek had been trying to cross the street from between two cars in the 1400 block of West Irving Park Road on Saturday.</p><p>“She didn’t do anything wrong. She looked both ways,” witness Liam Schalosy, 30, of Logan Square, told the Sun-Times.

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<p>A man charged with drunk driving in a fatal crash allegedly didn't stop for a pedestrian crossing the road in Lake View and "just went through her," a witness told the Sun-Times.</p><p>Sarah Milcarek, 25, was thrown in the air and crashed through the vehicle's rear windshield, landing in its backseat, <a class="Link" href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2026/08/11/motorist-flees-causes-multiple-crashes-in-fatal-lake-view-hit-and-run" target="_blank" >according to prosecutors</a>. The vehicle kept going and crashed into another car, then a tree.
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