According to police, around approximately 5:42 p.m., the man was riding an electric scooter in the 2800 block of North Broadway when he crashed into someone on the sidewalk.
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The person was not injured in the collision, police said.
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According to police, officers saw the man riding the scooter about a block away and turned on their lights and sirens to stop him.
Police said a 28-year-old man in a Toyota Corolla pulled over to the right side of the road in response to the sirens and hit the man on the scooter.
The 45-year-old was taken to Illinois Masonic Medical Center in critical condition, police said.
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He was cited for riding an electric scooter on the sidewalk.
A police source said the electric scooter was privately owned and not a rental.
(Source: Sun-Times Media Wire - Copyright Chicago Sun-Times 2019.)