Child, Adult Killed In Accident At Toll Plaza (83rd Tolls on the Tri-State).
Child, Adult Killed In Accident At Toll Plaza
Three Other People Seriously Injured
POSTED: 12:47 pm CST November 6, 2004
UPDATED: 2:55 pm CST November 6, 2004
HICKORY HILLS, Ill. -- Illinois State Police say a child and an adult were killed in an accident Saturday at a toll plaza on the southbound Tristate Tollway in the southwest suburbs of Chicago.
The lanes at the 82nd Street toll plaza near Hickory Hills are closed while rescue workers are on the scene.
The semi plowed through the toll plaza and rolled over on top of a vehicle stopped at an automated tollbooth to pay the toll, Illinois State Police Tollway District Trooper Doug Whitmore said.
That vehicle was carrying five people, and at least 2 of them were fatally injured, he said. The
Police say the three other people were seriously injured.
The truck driver suffered minor injuries. The toll plaza worker was airlifted to a hospital.
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Just knowing that toll booth (I travel it twice daily), I really have to wonder if there was a combo of the truck being cut off and equipment malfunction with the truck.
Just to be clear, I am not saying the vehicle carrying those who died was possibly cutting the truck off. I wonder how much information in regards to this accident will be released.