Fatal Bartlett accident echoes 1994 death Elgin man's widow sees parallels, but police say road's not a problem.(News)

Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), February, 2007 by Selvam, Ashok

Byline: Ashok Selvam Daily Herald Staff Writer Virginia DeBlieck's voice trembled as she drew a connection between the accident that killed her husband 13 years ago on Route 59 and Wednesday's wreck in nearly the same place that killed Kevin Stutson. "I'm just devastated," she said from her Phoenix home.

"I'm shaking. This is terrible." Michael and Virginia DeBlieck were leaving Elgin on a 10-day vacation to Cancun in April 1994. They were driving south on Route 59, near Wayne, when an 11-pound boulder catapulted from the back of a gravel truck heading ...