Driver shot, crashes into IDOT truck on OB Dan Ryan

Sunday, September 1, 2019
CHICAGO (WLS) -- Several lanes of the Dan Ryan Expressway were temporarily closed Sunday morning after a driver who had been shot crashed into an Illinois Department of Transportation vehicle.

The crash happened on the outbound Dan Ryan near 47th Street at about 6:20 a.m. An IDOT Minuteman truck was in the left shoulder when it was struck from behind by a black Toyota Camry. The driver of the Camry had suffered non-life threatening gunshot wounds to the right leg and left arm, police said. There was nothing to indicate that the shooting had happened on the expressway.
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The driver who struck the truck was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center where his condition stabilized, police said. The IDOT Minuteman was not injured.
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