JOLIET, IL — A truck driver who lives two hours northwest of Joliet now has a warrant out for his arrest from Joliet’s Police Department in connection with a Nov. 1 hit-and-run crash along Interstate 80 in Joliet that left a female motorist injured, according to court records.
On Thursday, the Will County State’s Attorney’s Office of Jim Glasgow charged Thomas Dunn, who turns 70 years old this weekend, with failure to report an accident involving personal injury or death. Dunn was also charged with failure to stop after having an accident involving personal injury or death.
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As for his third charge, Dunn is charged with leaving the scene of an accident involving property damage. The fourth and final charge is refusal to give information or render aid.
On Wednesday at the Will County Courthouse, Judge Art Smigielski signed the warrant for Joliet police to obtain the arrest of Dunn, who lives all the way in Freeport, Illinois.
The criminal complaint indicates that on Nov. 1, Dunn failed to stop the 1994 Peterbilt truck he was driving and left the scene of his accident at Chicago Street and the Interstate 80 eastbound ramp in Joliet. Mauttie Ratcliffe was injured in that crash, and Dunn failed to report the accident to the Joliet Police Department within half an hour of the crash, court records show.
One of the other charges indicates the Freeport man failed to give Ratcliffe his name, his address, his registration number for the vehicle he was driving on Nov. 1.
The leaving the scene of an accident involving property damage charge indicates Dunn was driving the 1994 Peterbilt truck when he collided with the 2015 Chevrolet Camaro in Joliet, resulting in damage to the Chevrolet Camaro and Dunn “did not stop at the scene of such motor vehicle accident.”
According to the arrest warrant, Judge Smigielski checked off on the box on the form stating “defendant to be held without release and brought before this court for pre-trial detention or conditions of release hearing.”
It wasn’t immediately clear how long it will take for Joliet police to make the arrest, considering that Dunn lives two hours away from Joliet.
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