Police today released surveillance photos of a hit-and-run vehicle suspected of striking and seriously injuring a University of Illinois at Chicago student last month.
The accident happened about 3:20 p.m. on Jan. 26 on the 800 block of West Roosevelt Road, police said. Police said a black Dodge Challenger with a chrome gas tank cover struck the UIC student and fled southbound on Halsted Street.The vehicle was last seen at 18th and Halsted Streets.
Anyone who can identify the driver or the vehicle should contact the Major Accident Investigation Unit at 312-745-4521.
2 pedestrians killed in South Side hit-and-run; driver in custody
A man and a woman died early Thursday morning after they were hit by a car near 95th Street and Cottage Grove Avenue as they were crossing the street, according to police.
The driver of the gray Nissan that hit them fled, but police said they pulled him over several blocks away.
The Nissan was headed west on 95th Street about 2:45 a.m. when it hit the two people near the intersection, police said.
Police said the man appeared to be in his 50s or 60s and the woman in her 40s.
The driver was in police custody and the Nissan impounded as police continued their investigation.
Man killed in Southwest Side crash
The crash might have been the result of an unspecified medical episode, they added.
The accident took place about 3:20 a.m. at 63rd Street and Harlem Avenue in the Clearing neighborhood. The site of the accident was on the Chicago side of the Chicago-Summit border.
One of the car flipped over and landed on the other one. The identity of the dead man was not available.
One other person was transported to Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood. A third refused treatment at the scene, police said.
UPDATE: ID as Brian Driscoll, 38, of the 500 block of West 24th Place, was pronounced dead at 3:56 a.m. at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office.
3 injured in wrong-way crash on Lake Shore Drive
Two women and a man were injured in a three-car collision involving a wrong-way driver on Lake Shore Drive Thursday morning.
It was at least the fourth instance of a driver traveling the wrong way on an expressway since mid-December.
Around 2 a.m. today, a red Nissan headed north in the southbound lanes of the Drive struck a white Toyota Corrola near Roosevelt Road, police said. It was not clear how far the Nissan driver had gone the wrong way.
After hitting the Corrola, the Nissan hit a van but the van's driver refused medical attention at the scene.
The Nissan's driver and a passenger and the Corrola's driver were all taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, police said. The three suffered "trauma" injuries, said Chief Kevin MacGregor, a fire department spokesman. At least one of the victims was in serious to critical condition.
Police closed the southbound Drive from Balbo to Roosevelt for about two hours, but reopened that section about 4:30 a.m. No problems were anticipated for the morning rush hour.
On Monday, four men died when a driver made a U-turn to go east in the westbound lanes of Interstate 80 and slammed head-on into another car near Kedzie Avenue near south suburban Hazel Crest.
The sole survivor said the driver of the wrong-way car, 28-year-old Gustavo Vargas, taunted the three other people in the car, screaming, "You guys read to die? You guys ready to die?"
The previous Friday, Rakesh J. Baker, 23, drove his SUV five miles inbound on the outbound Stevenson Expressway before crashing head-on with another vehicle on the ramp from LakeShore Drive. No one was killed.
On Dec. 15, a driver traveled 11 miles north in the southbound lanes of the Kennedy and Edens expressways before he was stopped. Miraculously, he didn't hit anyone. The driver was arrested on DUI charges
UPDATE: A 29-year-old Chicago woman has been charged in connection with the wrong-way crash that injured her and two others on Lake Shore Drive on Thursday morning.
Carneris Wiggins, of the 2000 block of West 111th Street, was charged with felony aggravated driving under the influence and causing an accident and bodily harm.
She was also cited for driving the wrong way on a one-way street, failure to reduce speed, operating her Nissan without insurance, and failing to carry or display her driver’s license.
2 hit by car on Southwest Side
Two people were injured, one seriously, when they were hit by a car while crossing the street in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood this morning, authorities said.
A woman injured in the accident about 7:15 a.m. near 63rd Street and Pulaski Road suffered severe injuries to one of her legs, said Chicago Police News Affairs Officer Robert Perez, citing preliminary information.
One person was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in serious-to-critical condition, and another taken to the same hospital in fair-to-serious condition, said Chicago Fire Department spokesman Richard Rosado.
In addition to the woman's apparently severe leg injuries, the second person injured may have been pinned by the auto in the accident, Perez said.
The driver in the accident remained on-scene and was speaking to police
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