Driver in deadly crash was off-duty Chicago police officer, sources say
The driver behind the wheel in a deadly crash in downtown Chicago was an off-duty Chicago police officer, law enforcement sources told CBS 2.
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The driver behind the wheel in a deadly crash in downtown Chicago was an off-duty Chicago police officer, law enforcement sources told CBS 2.
The driver behind the wheel in a deadly crash in downtown Chicago was an off-duty Chicago police officer, law enforcement sources told CBS 2.
Chopper 2 was over the scene where the semi was caught between two freight trains.
Officials said the semi was stopped on the tracks at the time of the crash. Fire crews are working on making a recovery.
Drivers are being forced to take the Central Avenue exit as reconstruction teams were on the scene.
Detectives and crash investigators determined Samantha Jacobson, 45, of Crystal Lake, was responsible for hiding evidence from the investigation.
Joliet police said officers responded to the intersection of Black Road and Barber Lane around 10:17 p.m. for a single-vehicle crash.
Illinois State Police said around 4:45 a.m., troopers responded to multiple calls of a wrong-way driver on I-94 traveling southbound in the northbound lanes near Roosevelt.
Chicago police said a 53-year-old man was driving southbound on the northbound lane of DuSable Lake Shore Drive in the wrong direction when it struck another vehicle head-on.
Police said 37-year-old Shalom Peters was speeding when his car crossed the center line on Oakton and crashed into two utility poles
Police said 37-year-old Shalom Peters was speeding when his car crossed the center line on Oakton and crashed into two utility poles. He died at the scene.
The crash killed five people, including two young children.
Chicago police said the victim was riding a motorized scooter when the driver of a silver Honda Civic failed to stop at the red light and struck the victim in the intersection.
The driver of the Mack was unable to avoid the collision - striking the Toyota head-on. Both vehicles rolled following the collision, authorities said.
Breaking down the numbers month-by-month, September is the deadliest with 134.
The Valparaiso Police Department responded to a single motor vehicle crash in the area of State Road 49 and US. Highway 30 around 1:30 a.m.
It was tough for school community members to wrap their minds around the deadly crash involving four students.
"I called Yuyu first because I thought it was a joke. And I was just like, why aren't you answering?"
A car traveling at a high rate of speed crashed into multiple cars, leaving one person dead and three others hurt in Humboldt Park Saturday afternoon.
Authorities say the driver of a gray Honda Civic passed a vehicle in front of him in the eastbound lane in a no-passing zone.
The driver of the sedan, a 26-year-old woman, was traveling northbound on South Chicago when the front end of the car struck the front end of the motorcycle traveling in the same direction.
The motorcyclist, an unidentified woman, was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center where she was pronounced dead.
Around 2:30 a.m. police said a shuttle bus, driven by an 80-year-old man, crashed into a light pole and concrete retaining wall near Terminal 5.
The Lombard and South Elgin football teams came together Friday night to remember the two victims of the crash the day before. CBS 2's Charlie De Mar reports.
CBS's Sabrina Franza reports the South Elgin High School community is in mourning after losing two students in a car crash Thursday as the identities of the two girls were released.
