A woman was killed Sunday afternoon when she was ejected from her car after it left the roadway and rolled, Waukegan police said.
Officers said they recovered about nine grams of what they suspect is heroin from the vehicle.
Authorities have not released the identity of the woman, whom police said was a 31-year-old Waukegan resident.
Witnesses told police the car she was driving was northbound on Green Bay Road at a high rate of speed at around 2:15 p.m. when it veered into the southbound lanes. It quickly came back into the north lanes before leaving the road, and then rolled several times.
The car came to a stop in a parking lot in the 400 block of Green Bay Road, damaging four cars in the lot, police said.
Emergency responders treated the woman and transported her to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead. A passenger in the 2002 Ford Explorer, a 50-year-old Waukegan resident, was taken to the hospital with what police said were injuries that were not life-threatening.
Police said they do not know why the vehicle lost control.
