1 dead, 3 hospitalized in Chatham after car crashes into bus stop
CHICAGO (CBS) -- A man was killed while waiting for the bus when an out-of-control driver slammed into a CTA bus stop in Chicago Sunday morning. Several other people are hurt.
It happened 79th and King Drive in the Chatham neighborhood.
A friend of the victim told CBS 2's Sabrina Franza that the victim who died was waiting under the vestibule like he does every single day.
That vestibule is no longer standing. Glass crumbled underneath. The friend says a hat that lay on the ground belonged to her friend.
"He was a good guy, you know. I saw him every day. We would talk. We would eat, you know, everything. He kept to himself, did what he had to do to survive," Marie MacMillan said.
MacMillan learned her friend died Sunday morning waiting at the same bus stop where, for almost 10 years, they sat together.
The 57-year-old was pronounced dead on scene around 11:15 a.m.
Three others were taken to the hospital. It is not clear if they were waiting with him or were just near the bus stop. They are a 64-year-old woman, a 23-year-old woman, and another man whose age is not yet known.
Police say a red Dodge Avenger was driving northbound on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive where it meets 79th, jumped the curb, and slammed into the bus stop, totaling the vestibule.
The conditions of the three other victims were not available Sunday evening.
One man is in custody and charges are pending.
