Police release more details about fatal Waukegan crash

Police on Monday released new details about a single-car crash that killed a 27-year old Waukegan woman and injured her passenger Friday.

Shaneera Bell died due to multiple blunt-force injuries after she lost control of the vehicle and struck a tree, according to a news release from Waukegan police. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

Officers responded about 1:40 a.m. to the 2300 block of North Sheridan to find the wrecked vehicle on fire.

"Good Samaritans" pulled a passenger from the vehicle, police said. The passenger, a man in his 20s from Waukegan, was taken to the hospital with nonlife-threatening injuries.

Investigators believe speed was a factor in the crash and that neither occupant was wearing a seat belt.