WILMETTE, Ill. (WLS) -- All lanes on the Edens Expressway were shut down early Thursday after five people were injured in a serious crash involving motorcycles and a vehicle towing a trailer, Illinois State Police said.
Around midnight a group of motorcyclists were traveling at a high rate of speed on the inbound Edens near Glenview Road when one of them hit a vehicle towing a trailer, causing the car to lose control and hit the wall, police said.
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At least three people on motorcycles crashed, police said. They were all transported to Evanston Hospital in critical condition after being thrown from their motorcycles. They included a 27-year-old Chicago man, 24-year-old Elk Grove Village man and a 28-year-old Chicago woman.
The two men from Chicago who were inside the vehicle were taken to Skokie Hospital in good condition, ISP said.
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Inbound lanes on the Edens Expressway were blocked from Skokie to Old Orchard Road while police investigated the crash. They reopened just after 5:40 a.m.
Outbound lanes were closed from about midnight to just after 12:45 a.m., police said.