Driver dies after fleeing police, crashes pickup truck into Des Plaines River
The driver, identified as a 79-year-old man from Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin, was found dead inside.
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The driver, identified as a 79-year-old man from Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin, was found dead inside.
Two others have been taken to area hospitals for potentially life-threatening injuries.
Illinois State Police confirmed two vehicles crashed shortly after 11 a.m. near the southbound Kennedy Expressway ramp to the Eisenhower Expressway.
There will also be a walk-through for law enforcement at 12:45 followed by the funeral at 1:30.
The deputy was sitting inside their Ford Explorer on the shoulder of Illinois Route 23, when a large commercial truck left the road and rear-ended the squad car.
CBS News analysis shows most federal traffic safety grants go to planning projects, rather than actual construction. Critics say slow progress contributes to rising deaths on America's roads.
The mother of victim Jaida Victoria Rosado Colon is why the driver who crossed all the lanes of traffic at the last minute to exit is only facing a traffic citation all these months later.
The driver's car was totaled, but the driver was okay.
Just after 3:00 a.m., the Crown Point Fire Department responded to a driver who had hit a herd of cows near Mississippi Parkway and Route 231.
A wrong-way driver slammed into a garbage truck in the outbound lanes around 5:45 a.m.
The boy has been charged with two felony counts of attempted murder, two felony counts of aggravated battery, and one misdemeanor count of battery.
The driver of the Jeep was ticketed for DUI and violating Scott's Law.
They're waiting on the Building Department to find out if they can reopen on Monday.
Evergreen Park police said responding officers found two vehicles that had been involved in an accident while heading eastbound on West 87th Street.
A car was left flipped on its roof at 87th and Western on the border with Evergreen Park.
The CEO who runs this daycare says police told her that the car was stolen.
River Road was closed for investigation.
Chicago police say a 35-year-old man was driving an Acura in the southbound lanes when his car stalled near the shoulder. When he got out, he was hit by a driver in the SUV, police said.
The victim was taken to Northwestern Hospital by the Chicago Fire Department in serious condition. A female passenger in the Acura was also taken to Northwestern by CFD in good condition.
One person was found dead at the scene. Two others were rushed to Lutheran General Hospital in unknown conditions.
Both drivers were taken to Ascension St Joseph Medical Center by the Joliet Fire Department with serious but non-life-threatening injuries.
A woman was killed, and two others were hurt following a hit-and-run crash on the city's South Side Tuesday morning.
The victim was taken by the Chicago Fire Department to Mt. Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Police chased the car Nathen Jones was in over a simple traffic offense, in violation of Chicago police pursuit policy.
It is unclear if the person was the driver of the car or an employee.
