Pickup truck vs semi-trailer truck crash at Rohlwing Road and Blackhawk Drive, Rolling Meadows.
Rolling Meadows police and firefighter/paramedics responded about 12:43 PM Friday to a report of crash with injuries at Rohlwing Road and Blackhawk Drive Rolling Meadows, Il. Police and firefighter/paramedics received a report that a pickup truck rolled over after crashing with a semi-trailer truck.
A sheet metal worker was driving himself in a pickup truck to Northwest Community Hospital with a lacerated arm. While passing a flatbed semi-trailer truck, he hit the flatbed semi-trailer truck as the driver was making a wide right turn onto westbound Blackhawk Drive from southbound Rohlwing Road.
The crash caused heavy damage to the semi-trailer truck tractor and heavy damage to the pickup truck, which rolled over.
The driver of the pickup truck was transported to Northwest Community Hospital. The driver of the semi-trailer truck was not injured.
FIRE/MEDIC UNITS ASSIGNED …
ENGINE(S): E16 E84
TRUCK(S): T ??
SQUAD(S): SQD ??
CHIEF(S): BC15
EMS: A84 A16
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