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West Side crash leaves 4 injured, including 2 Chicago police officers

By FOX 32 Digital Staff
Published  February 20, 2025 7:16am CST
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FOX 32 Chicago

The Brief

    • A crash involving two Chicago police vehicles and three other cars on the city's West Side left several people injured Tuesday night.
    • Police said a minivan collided with an unmarked squad car responding to a call, triggering a chain reaction crash.
    • Two officers and two civilians were hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries, while the minivan driver refused treatment.

CHICAGO - A crash involving two Chicago police cars and three other vehicles left several people injured Tuesday night on the city's West Side.

Multi-car crash

The backstory:

The crash happened around 9:30 p.m. in the 4800 block of West North Avenue in the Hermosa neighborhood.

According to police, a gray minivan was turning northbound onto Cicero Avenue when it struck an unmarked Chicago police vehicle that had its lights and sirens activated. 

The impact caused a chain reaction involving three other vehicles, including a marked police car.

Two officers inside the unmarked police vehicle were taken to local hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries. A 23-year-old woman and a 20-year-old man in another car were taken to Stroger Hospital where they were listed in good condition. The driver of the minivan, a 39-year-old man, refused medical treatment at the scene.

Traffic citations are pending as major accident detectives investigate the crash.

The Source: The information in this story came from the Chicago Police Department.

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