Someone said that as of now they're viewing this as a tragic accident. As more information comes in they should be able to determine what caused the truck to plow into the train station.
A truck careening into a crowded train station doesn't happen everyday, so perhaps that's why the New York Times is covering this Chicago accident.
RIP.
I've been through this intersection a few times myself.
Anyone who knows where McCormick Place in Chicago would understand that this accident site is just a few blocks away to the west.
Cermak is 22nd Street south of downtown and runs east and west.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi080425ctacrash-gfx,0,5090023.graphic
The truck driver limped out of the hospital in police custody late Friday. A Stroger Hospital spokesman identified him as Don Wells, 51. A police source confirmed the name of the driver. Police spokeswoman Monique Bond said he had not been charged.
Wells was treated at Stroger Hospital, said hospital spokesman Sean Howard. Also treated at Stroger were a 26-year-old woman, a 14-year-old boy and an 11-year-old girl. The boy was released; the woman was listed in stable condition, and the girl had multiple injuries.
Wells refused the doctor's advice and asked to be released, in part because he didn't have health insurance, Howard said. He was handcuffed and escorted by police to a waiting police wagon.
The scary part that really got me was how the head of the Emergency Team spoke as to their levels of dealing with this. Their first response level is to send out 7 ambulances. Then the level was escalated and they called out 7 more. Then the level was escalated yet again and they called out 7 more additional ambulances.
I'm very thankful (and admittedly selfishly so) that I was not driving through this intersection at this time, which I usually do a couple times a week in the course of my job. There but for the Grace of God go I.