Saturday, May 18, 2013
Two people were taken to Silver Cross Hospital after a crash west of South La Grange Road in Mokena at about 12:25 p.m. State police say the car was stolen from Joliet.
Police are investigating a crash involving a car stolen from Joliet and a semi-truck on Interstate 80 Saturday afternoon. Two people from the car were taken to Silver Cross Hospital in New Lenox, according to Illinois State Police. At least one person in the car was male. Police did not have details about the identity of either person early Saturday afternoon. For an unknown reason, the stolen car crashed into the back of the semi at about 12:25 p.m., about one-half mile west of South La Grange Road on I-80, police said. The driver of the semi was not hurt. Check back with Patch as more details become available.
Monday, January 7, 2013
Will County Sheriff's Office reports, Dec. 26-28 • Scrap Metal and Aluminum Rims Stolen • Vandals Replace Gasoline with Bleach • Car Crash at L-W North.
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 26 Unknown persons broke into a storage container and stole scrap metal and four aluminum rims between Dec. 16 and Dec. 19 on the 22000 block of S. 80th Avenue in Frankfort. Unknown persons punctured two tires on a work vehicle on the 20000 block of S. Frankfort Square Road in Frankfort. The offenders also poured bleach into the vehicle’s gas tank and poured bleach into a Ford Edge at the same location. FRIDAY, DEC. 28 Security personnel at about 1 a.m. at Lincoln-Way North High School on the 19900 block of S. Harlem Avenue in Frankfort observed a white vehicle crash into the school’s parking lot security gate. The vehicle then proceeded to drive around the school and exit on the south side of the school, heading down …
Saturday, July 21, 2012
Julie Gorczynski's family and friends attended a special ceremony Friday, where Gov. Pat Quinn signed a law to help stop situations like the one that took Gorczynski's life from happening again. The Frankfort teen died in a car crash in Orland Park.
If there was a shared sentiment Friday morning as Gov. Pat Quinn signed "Julie's Law" at a special ceremony at Lincoln-Way North High School, it was bittersweetness, the idea that something positive could come out of tragedy of Julie Gorczynski's death. Gorczynski was killed last summer after the car she was in was hit by a driver going more than 35 mph over the speed limit in Orland Park. The driver had been placed on court suspension seven times previously, all for excessive speeding. A week before the accident, the Frankfort teen had graduated from L-W North, and a week later, she was to turn 18. READ: Frankfort Teen Dies in Traffic Accident Family members, friends and government officials joined the governor at the signing Friday for …
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Sunday, August 14, 2011
Four others were injured in a single-car accident in the 6200 block of West 183rd Street in Tinley, according to police.
UPDATE (4:50 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 14) An Alsip teenager was killed and four others were injured after a single-car crash late Saturday night in the 6200 block of West 183rd Street in Tinley park, a police release stated. A 2008 Pontiac G6 was traveling westbound on West 183rd Street at 11:38 p.m. Saturday and left the roadway, rolling several times before coming to rest in Cook County Forest Preserve property on the north side of the road, according to a Tinley Park Police Department release. Megan Elam, 18, of Alsip, was ejected from the vehicle and pronounced dead at 12:28 a.m. Sunday at Advocate South Suburban Hospital in Hazel Crest, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner. Elam was a passenger in the the vehicle, the release said. …
Friday, February 11, 2011
Three-car accident closes a lane of eastbound traffic; vehicle fire does the same on opposite side of interstate.
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Friday, February 11, 2011
Two accidents closed down lanes in both directions of Interstate 80 east of LaGrange Road on Friday night. A three-car crash shut down a lane of eastbound traffic, while another vehicle caught fire directly across the interstate on the westbound side. No one was seriously hurt from the eastbound accident, said an Indiana State Police officer on the scene, although an ambulance was seen leaving the site. Further information about both crashes wasn't available from State Police officials.
Monday, January 10, 2011
Mokena woman lost control of her car along snowy Lincoln Highway on Jan. 6, suffered no serious injuries.
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Monday, January 10, 2011
UPDATE (Jan. 10)--According to the report by Frankfort Police, the woman in the accident was Janice Gellegos of Mokena. She was traveling on Lincoln Highway between Wolf Road and Butternut Trail in Frankfort on the morning of Jan. 6 when she lost control of her car in the snowy conditions and slid off the road. As the car hit the ditch, something latched on to the vehicle, causing it to flip, according to the report. Gellegos was taken to an area hospital for precautionary reasons but was immediately released, Frankfort Police Chief John Burica said. No traffic citation was issued in the accident, he said. Firefighters rescued a woman trapped in her car that flipped over into a ditch Thursday along Lincoln Highway between Wolf Road and …
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