Chaos erupted on the streets of Chicago's West Side when a car blew through a traffic signal and caused a multi-vehicle accident that ended with it plowing into a bus stop shelter. The car, reportedly on a rampage, hit another vehicle before meeting its end at the shelter near West Roosevelt Road and Central Park Avenue in the North Lawndale neighborhood, according to ABC7 Chicago.
Caught in the aftermath of the incident were two young boys aged two and nine, who, while waiting at the bus stop, were said to have been seriously injured and transported to Stroger Hospital, fire officials initially told reporters. Along with the children, two others, nursing injuries designated as 'good condition', were taken to the hospital—one from the offending vehicle and another from the car it struck, detailed in a report by Chicago Sun-Times.
The Chicago Police Department has confirmed the sequence of events leading to the crash. A statement read that the vehicle "disregarded a traffic signal" and collided with another, propelling it off the road and directly into the bus shelter structure.
Despite the mayhem, no citations were issued on the scene by the police. Fragments of glass and twisted metal marked the spot of the collision, but no further updates on the condition of the victims or reasons behind the lack of citations had been reported immediately following the crash.
