Inbound lanes of Interstate 55 were shut down after a high-speed crash sent a vehicle airborne before it flipped multiple times into oncoming traffic, police said.
According to Illinois State Police, the accident happened just after 8:45 a.m. on the expressway near Central Avenue in Cook County.
Authorities said the driver of one vehicle was traveling at a high rate of speed before it hit another vehicle and "went into the left side ditch" before "going airborne and flipping numerous times" where it then struck another vehicle head-on.
Sky 5 aerial footage from the scene showed one vehicle on the southbound side of the expressway and two others on the northbound side of the expressway.
All lanes were initially shut down following the crash. Traffic was being diverted off at Harlem Avenue northbound just before noon.
The driver of the the initial vehicle and the vehicle struck head-on in the second crash were taken to an area hospital with injuries, but further details on the extent of those injuries weren't immediately released.
Check back for more on this developing story.
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