Northlake man gets 9 years for fatal DUI crash
January 13, 2009 5:49 PM

A Northlake man was sentenced to 9 years in prison today after he pleaded guilty to driving under the influence of alcohol when he crashed into a postal truck, killing the driver.
The postal worker, Ronald Greene, 45, of Chicago, was driving north on Mannheim Road in Leyden Township at 11:05 p.m. June 1 when a car driven by Benjamin Martinez-Gonzalez, 23, ran a stop sign at Dickens Avenue and collided with the truck.

The force of the impact caused the truck to flip over twice, said Assistant Cook County State's Atty. Maureen O'Brien. Greene was partially thrown from the truck and crushed to death.

Martinez-Gonzalez admitted drinking and driving and had a blood-alcohol content of 0.237, O'Brien said. The legal limit is 0.08.

O'Brien said Martinez-Gonzalez has been in this country illegally for seven years and will be deported after he serves his sentence, which was imposed by Circuit Judge Lawrence Terrell.

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