Driver shot, crashes into IDOT truck on OB Dan Ryan

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Sunday, September 1, 2019
Driver shot, crashes into IDOT truck on OB Dan Ryan; 2 lanes closed
Several lanes of the Dan Ryan Expressway were closed Sunday morning after a driver who had been shot crashed into an Illinois Department of Transportation vehicle.

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.

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.