Early Sunday turned into a scene of chaos on Chicago's South Side when a hefty U-Haul truck hit a black SUV, an encounter that left five individuals, including a teenager, nursing the aftermath of a brutal collision, according to reports from Chicago Sun-Times.
The smash-up, which took the stage near the 200 block of West 71st Street shortly after the clock struck midnight as per CBS News report. Rang in with the detonation of bending steel and shattering glass, Greater Grand Crossing's silence was pierced by the raw force of impact, calling Chicago police to a scene where injuries ranged from serious to critical and one passenger, a 15-year-old boy, was whisked away in serious condition to Comer Children's Hospital per CBS News Chicago's report. The other victims scrambled to various hospitals, their conditions pinballed from fair to critical and among those, one man found himself teetering on the brink, as per the Chicago Sun-Times News.
In the wake of the wreckage, the driver of the U-Haul found themselves clasped in the hands of the law, harbored by Illinois State Police while the rest of the evening managed to trudge on free from additional injuries or arrests.
