DOUBLE FATAL WRONG WAY CRASH NORTHBOUND LANES OF ROUTE 53 BETWEEN KIRCHOFF RD AND EUCLID AVE, ROLLING MEADOWS

TUE JUL 19 2016 ~3:55 AM
Rolling Meadows Fire Department
Head-on Crash/Fatal Wrong Way Crash
NB Route 53 and Kirchoff Rd Rolling Meadows, IL

Initially reported as a multiple-vehicle pileup with a wrong way driver on northbound Route 53 between Kirchoff Road and Euclid Avenue.

The crash was later reported as a two-vehicle crash.

Police and firefighter/paramedics received a report that one person was trapped in each vehicle -- an American Taxi van and a yellow "sedan".

A84 requested to the scene at 4:00 a.m.

Two patients were killed at the scene -- one in each.

Apparently an American Taxi van was traveling northbound in the northbound lanes of Route 53 when it was hit by a yellow subcompact car that was traveling southbound in the northbound lanes of Route 53.

Apparent impaired driving crash.

UNITS ASSIGNED ...

ENGINE(S): E16 E15 Palatine E84

SQUAD(S): SQD ??

CHIEF(S): BC15

EMS: A16 A15

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