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GARY — A 65-year-old man died Sunday after spending nearly two weeks in the hospital following a crash on the Borman Expressway.

Michael Hazlett, of Lake Wells, Florida, succumbed to multiple blunt force traumatic injuries he sustained in a Sept. 9 crash in the eastbound lanes of Interstate 80 in Gary, the Lake County Coroner's Office said.

He was pronounced dead at Northlake Methodist Hospital ICU at 7:26 p.m. on Sunday.

A forensic autopsy was conducted at the Lake County Forensic Center in Crown Point on Monday.

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