SUV slams into Corner Bakery after car crash in the Loop
A Toyota Camry ran a red light at Washington and Wells, hitting a Toyota RAV4, which ended up hitting a nearby Corner Bakery.
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A Toyota Camry ran a red light at Washington and Wells, hitting a Toyota RAV4, which ended up hitting a nearby Corner Bakery.
An SUV crashed into a Corner Bakery Café early Tuesday morning in the Loop in downtown Chicago.
The crash happened on busy Pulaski Road near 71st Street.
It happened around 4:17 a.m. on the eastbound lanes of I-290 and Wolf Road in Hillside.
Chicago police said officers responded to a call of a traffic accident and found a blue sedan crashed into an apartment building.
Berkely fire officials did not say how long the lanes will be closed but did say the crash was significant.
Chicago police said that the woman was hit by the SUV driven by a 24-year-old man traveling northbound.
The trooper was inside the squad car, which was parked on the left shoulder with its emergency lights activated when a Saturn Vue hit its rear.
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The crash happened just before 9:30 a.m. along Route 176, about half a mile east of the intersection of North Union Road and Route 176.
Chicago police said the man hit a pole and a fence.
The Lake County Sheriff's Office said just after 2 a.m., deputies responded to the area of Stearns School Road and Mill Creek Drive for a traffic crash with someone trapped inside a vehicle.
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As firefighters were putting out the fire, the car's gas tank exploded.
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The trooper returned to their squad car, which was then hit in the rear by a Lincoln SUV that failed to move over.
The spokesperson says several other people were hurt, but police didn't specify how many were injured.
The homeowner, who did not want to be identified, said his wife was the only one home at the time of the crash and was injured as a result.
The car was implicated in the carjacking of another Nissan.
Lake County Sheriff's police said, around 1:05 a.m., officers responded to a crash between a Dodge Ram pickup truck and a semi-trailer truck in the 11400 block of Wicker Avenue in unincorporated Lake County near St. John.
Anyone with information is asked to contact police at 312-745-4521.
Preliminary reports indicated one of the vehicles was traveling southbound in the northbound lane of Route 41.
Two heavily-damaged cars were sitting in the middle of the roadway, while a third vehicle — a Jeep — sustained minor damage.
Firefighters had to use special equipment to cut another person out of the car.
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A Toyota Camry ran a red light at Washington and Wells, hitting a Toyota RAV4, which ended up hitting a nearby Corner Bakery.
The circumstances of the shooting and whether it was deliberate or accidental were not immediately released.
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