Illinois State police and Elk Grove Village and Schaumburg firefighter/paramedics responded about 6:41 PM Friday to a report of crash with injuries at 42.006015, -88.027517 (Sb Route 53 and Biesterfield Road Schaumburg, Il). Police and firefighter/paramedics received a report that a black GMC pickup truck hauling a trailer lost a tire and lost the trailer to a rollover crash in the northbound lanes of Route 53.
Debris or a wheel and tire from the trailer crossed to the southbound side of Route 53, crashed into the windshield and roof of a white SUV, and hit a 30-year-old woman in the head. The woman was transported to an unspecified hospital with serious injuries.
The male driver of the pickup truck was treated at the scene by paramedics.
The truck and the trailer flipped on its side blocked all three lanes of northbound Route 53.
Illinois State Police were initially positioned on the northbound lanes.
Northbound and southbound lanes were blocked for investigation for most of Friday evening. Southbound lanes opened about 10:15 p.m.
Northbound lanes were open by 11:00 p.m.
FIRE/MEDIC UNITS ASSIGNED …
ENGINE(S): E52 E8
TRUCK(S): T52 TL ??
SQUAD(S): SQD ??
CHIEF(S): BC5 BC2
EMS: A52 A ?? A7
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