A vehicle crashed into a detached garage and home in Crystal Lake on July 27, 2022, causing two people to sustain life-threatening injuries. Alex Vucha for Shaw Local News Network

The family of a Crystal Lake man paralyzed after a car crashed into his home said that although the driver received a 10-year prison term, Angelo Pleotis got “a life sentence of his own in his wheelchair.”

The family has launched phase two of a GoFundMe campaign for Pleotis, 67, in hopes of raising at least $100,000 to help pay for the rising monthly cost of his care, Alyssa Pleotis, Pleotis’ daughter-in-law, said on the crowdsourcing site named Angelo’s Road to Recovery.

Last week, Connor Kirkpatrick, 30, was sentenced in an unrelated residential arson conviction. Charges related to Kirkpatrick crashing his

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