A tractor-trailer driver was using his phone when he struck and killed a motorist who was changing a flat tire on a suburban expressway last month, prosecutors say.
A little before 5:30 a.m. on June 24, Sebastian Stone, 23, was struck and killed by a passing vehicle while changing a flat tire on his black Honda on the right shoulder of I-80 near Torrence Avenue, according to prosecutors. Illinois State Police troopers arrived and found Stone dead. The vehicle that struck him had left the scene.
But a witness provided investigators with detailed information about the tractor-trailer involved, including the trailer number, truck number, and trucking company, prosecutors said. By 9 a.m., state police investigators had confirmed through license plate reader data that the truck described by the witness had been in the area. They also learned from the trucking company that Kulgeet Kang, 34, was driving the truck that morning, according to prosecutors…