Driver seriously injured in fiery crash on I-88 in Chicago suburbs
ELMHURST, Ill. (CBS) -- A fiery crash in on the Ronald Reagan Memorial Tollway trapped one person inside a vehicle Tuesday afternoon.
The crash happened at 2:38 p.m. in the eastbound lates of Interstate 88 near York Road.
Video from the scene showed firefighters trying to free a person pinned inside a red pickup truck.
Illinois State Police said the red pickup truck hit a semi-trailer truck and burst into flames.
Smoke was still rising from the pickup truck hours later.
The driver of the pickup truck was rushed to the hospital with life-threatening injuries.
The semi-trailer truck driver was uninjured.
Following the crash, all eastbound lanes of traffic on I-88 were shut down due to the crash and fire debris. Traffic was moving by slowly on the left shoulder.
