An 81-year-old Mount Prospect woman died late Saturday night from injuries suffered in a car crash that took place more than a week earlier.
Kathleen Polcaster was pronounced dead at 11:08 p.m. Saturday at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, according to a Cook County medical examiner's office spokesman. Polcaster will be examined today.
The spokesman said the accident occurred Nov. 20 when Polcaster apparently struck a tree at Huntington Commons and Linneman Road in Mount Prospect, about a mile from her home.
Police didn't release any other details about the crash.