Lee County officials investigating fatal crash

Emblem of Lee County Sheriff's Department, seen on a squad car on Friday, April 21, 2023.

SUBLETTE – Lee County authorities are investigating a fatal crash that happened Saturday in rural Sublette.

Anthony W. Barna, 27, of Bridgeview was pronounced dead at the scene of the one-vehicle crash on Tower Road near its intersection with Green Wing Road.

Lee County sheriff’s deputies were called to that location at 5:21 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 14. Investigating deputies learned that a black GMC Terrain was traveling west on Tower Road when it ran off the road, according to a Lee County Sheriff’s Office news release.

Barna was the driver, according to the release. The crash remains under investigation.

The Amboy Police Department, Amboy Fire and EMS, and Sublette Fire and EMS assisted the Lee County Sheriff’s Office.

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