VIDEO: Accident investigators worked at a car vs motorcycle crash in the northbound lanes of Rand Road and Winslowe Drive, closing the northbound lanes of Rand Road most of the afternoon.
A motorcyclist from Arlington Heights was killed Sunday just before 1:15 p.m. in a crash with a car on Rand Road near the entrance to the Palatine Walmart. Corey Hindes, age 54, was rushed by paramedics with Advanced Life Support to Level I Trauma Center Advocate Lutheran General Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 7:06 p.m.
Palatine police and firefighter/paramedics responded about 1:14 PM Sunday to a report of a serious crash with injuries at Rand Road and Winslowe Drive Palatine, Il. Police and firefighter/paramedics received a report that the motorcycle crash occurred with serious injuries with one person unconscious.
A second ambulance was requested for extra paramedics by 1:17 p.m. The driver of a black Mercedes Benz sedan refused medical treatment at the crash scene.
Ambulance 82’s crew transported one patient to Level I Trauma Center Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge with four paramedics on board.
The northbound lanes of Rand Road were closed for an extended accident investigation most of Sunday afternoon. Northbound Rand Road was backed up just short of Route 53 by 2:00 p.m.
Initially it appeared that an eastbound black Mercedes Benz sedan turned left into the Walmart driveway in front of a westbound motorcycle. During the accident investigation, the Mercedes with damage at the right, rear fender by the wheel, remained at the entrance driveway to Walmart near Rand Road.
FIRE/MEDIC UNITS ASSIGNED …
ENGINE(S): E82
SQUAD(S): SQD85
CHIEF(S): BC8
EMS: A82 A83
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