Truck cab catches fire off Eisenhower Expressway on West Side
Traffic was disrupted early Monday after the cab of a semi-trailer truck caught fire right off the Eisenhower Expressway on Chicago's West Side.
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Traffic was disrupted early Monday after the cab of a semi-trailer truck caught fire right off the Eisenhower Expressway on Chicago's West Side.
A person was killed in a crash involving a car and a semi-trailer truck in rural Will County, Illinois, southwest of Chicago on Tuesday.
One person was killed early Thursday when a semi-trailer caught fire in Chicago's Pullman community.
A tractor-trailer semi-truck hit the Norfolk Southern Bridge overpass, causing its trailer to dislodge from the truck and hit a garbage dump truck in the center lane, state police said.
The Borman Expressway (I-80/94) in Northwest Indiana was jammed early Wednesday morning on account of two crashes involving semi-trailer trucks, one of which left at least one person dead.
A semi was struck by a train in Gary, Indiana, after it became struck on the tracks during Monday morning's snowstorm.
A 13-year-old boy riding his bicycle was struck and killed by a semi in Manhattan, Illinois, officials said.
Both crashes involving semi-trucks happened about an hour and a half apart, the first on Route 47 and Charles Road, and the other at the intersection of Hartland Road and Route 14.
Westbound lanes of I-88 were shut down for hours in Downers Grove after a semi crash spilled cargo all over the roadway.
Thick black smoke billowed high into the sky and huge flames could be seen shooting from four trucks.
Firefighters and paramedics found the crash about one-half mile north of the intersection on Route 14, with the passenger vehicle overturned on its roof and the driver trapped inside.
One person is dead after a crash with a semi on Route 394 in Sauk Village, Illinoi State Police said Monday.
A preliminary investigation indicated that the Prius, driven by a 28-year-old Des Plaines woman, was heading eastbound on Algonquin Road approaching Leslie Lane when she hit the back of a Volvo semi-truck.
The driver was able to escape the flames but was taken to a local hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries.
Illinois State Police said one northbound lane of I-55 is now open again after a truck hauling beer overturned in Bolingbrook Monday morning.
The driver attempted to stop but was unable to avoid the collision.
A semi truck crashed into a building and caught fire Wednesday afternoon in suburban West Chicago, police said.
Video showed the burned-out husk of a semi-trailer truck still engulfed in flames on the roadway.
The fire happened around 8:30 p.m. near La Grange Road.
Illinois State Police said the crash happened just after 11:30 p.m. on northbound I-94 at 59th Street.
A 24-year-old woman driving an Acura sedan in the southbound lanes of Route 45 crossed the center median and crashed into a semi-trailer truck in the northbound lanes.
Chicago police said a semi-truck, driven by a 54-year-old man, was traveling northbound on Ashland when it hit the rear passenger side of an ambulance.
Information about injuries was not immediately available.
Illinois State Police said troopers responded to the scene for a report of a passenger vehicle that rear-ended a truck-tractor semi-trailer.
Louisville fighters pulled a female driver out of a semi-cab that crashed into the side of Clark Memorial Bridge and was dangling over the edge.
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