Luis Valdivia-Segoviano of Chicago Heights, Illinois was struck by a car and killed while he was standing outside his vehicle on IL-394 near Lynwood, Illinois. The motorist who stopped in front of him and to whom he was talking was also stuck and injured by the same vehicle and is in critical condition at Good Samaritan Hospital.
This is the second fatality in less than a week of someone standing outside their car on the highway in the the near Chicago area when they were struck and killed, emphasizing how dangerous it is to exit ones car on the highway.