2 CPD officers, 5 others injured when driver hits squad car in Chicago's Back of the Yards neighborhood
A driver ran a stop sign and crashed into a Chicago police squad car in the Back of the Yards neighborhood early Tuesday morning.
Eight people were injured, including two Chicago police officers.
At 4:14 a.m., a man of an unknown age was driving a black sport-utility vehicle north along the 5200 block of South Hermitage Avenue when he ran a stop sign at 52nd Street, police said. He hit a Chicago police patrol car that was traveling west on 52nd Street, police said.
The two officers in the squad car were taken to an area hospital. The driver and five passengers from the SUV also went to the hospital.
All suffered non-life-threatening injuries, police said.
Meanwhile, police radio dispatches indicated that one of those taken into custody after the crash was a juvenile.
The crash left the SUV flipped upside-down in the middle of the street. The vehicle also hit a fire hydrant during the crash, sending water bursting into the street and leaving the roadway flooded like a mini-river.
Later Tuesday morning, crews had repaired the damaged hydrant, but were still cleaning up the muddy mess left behind.