A crash on the Dan Ryan Expressway left five people, including three officers, hurt early Friday morning, authorities said.
According to fire officials, the highway crash took place just after 2 a.m. near 95th Street. Chicago police and an Illinois State Police vehicles were involved in the crash.
Authorities said three people were critically hurt, including two Chicago officers and one state police trooper, who were transported to Advocate Christ Medical Center in serious condition. Two other people were taken in stable condition to University of Chicago Hospital.
Illinois State Police said an ISP squad car rear-ended a passenger vehicle at the location and they two cars "became disabled in the lane of traffic."
"Another ISP Trooper squad car and a Chicago Police Department (CPD) squad car activated their emergency lights and stopped behind the first crash to alert motorists," ISP said in a release. "The trooper and the driver of the passenger vehicle were transported to an area hospital with non-life-threatening injuries."
But shortly after, another vehicle failed to move over for the crash scene and emergency vehicles and hit the CPD squad car at the scene, "pushing it forward into the rear of the assisting ISP squad car."
ISP did not confirm any additional injuries to officers at the scene, but noted the two vehicles were unoccupied at the time of the second crash.
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There were no major traffic impacts from the crash on the expressway as of 5:45 a.m.
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