Tow Truck Driver Flees Fatal Bensenville Crash: Cops

BENSENVILLE, IL – A tow truck driver left the site of a crash that killed a motorcyclist earlier this week in Bensenville, authorities said.

Shortly after 10 p.m. Monday, Bensenville officers responded to a crash on Irving Park Road near Walnut Avenue.

They found Daruisz Zalewski, 46, lying unresponsive on the road next to his motorcycle, according to a news release from DuPage County prosecutors.

The tow truck driver, identified as 42-year-old Joseph Sarb of Des Plaines, was headed west on Irving Park Road when he made a left turn into a business parking lot, police said.

Zalewski, who was traveling east, crashed into the back of Sarb's truck, prosecutors said.

Zalewski flew off his motorcycle and landed on the street, police said.

After the crash, Sarb drove through the parking lot, got back on Irving Park Road and left, according to the news release.

Zalewski was immediately taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Sarb was arrested at his house two days later. He was charged with leaving the scene of a fatal accident.

"The allegation that Mr. Sarb failed to stop and help a man who had just been knocked off his motorcycle and instead fled the scene are extremely troubling," DuPage County State's Attorney Robert Berlin said in the news release. "Additionally, leaving the scene of an accident in which you were involved that left a fatally injured man lying on a dark street, as alleged in this case, is not only illegal, it is morally reprehensible."

Sarb was taken to the DuPage County Jail. His bond was set at $250,000, with a requirement that he pay 10 percent to be released.