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Man Dies in Belmont-Central After Being Struck By His Own SUV
The crash location on the 2100 block of North Austin.
April 10, 2014
Hit-and-Run Driver Fatally Strikes and Drags Pedestrian in Austin
The crash site from the driver's perspective.
February 27, 2014
Driver Who Killed Elderly Pedestrian Claims He Didn’t See Him
The crash site, from the driver's perspective.
February 3, 2014
SUV Driver Kills East Side Woman and Flees the Scene
The 10400 block of South Ewing, from the driver's perspective.
January 30, 2014
Hit-and-Run Van Driver Kills Senior in Englewood
Englewood resident Jeffrey Bond, 65, struck by a motorist who fled the scene, was the last reported Chicago pedestrian fatality of 2013. Bond stepped off the curb midblock at 1019 West 59th when the driver of an eastbound maroon or brown van hit him around 4:40 p.m. Thursday, according to Officer Steve Sesso from Police News Affairs. The victim lived around the corner from the crash site on the 5800 block of South Carpenter.
January 2, 2014
Elderly Pedestrian Killed in Lakeview Crash
The crash site, from the driver's perspective.
December 16, 2013
Drunk Driver Kills Former Marine on Bike in Douglas Park
Robert Vais, 54, an administrator at Stroger Hospital, is charged with a felony aggravated DUI and two misdemeanor DUI charges after he fatally struck cyclist Hector Avalos, 28, with his van Friday night. Avalos, from the 1800 block of West Cermak, was biking back to the Southwest Side after leaving his job as a cook at a Mexican restaurant in River North when Vais, a Riverside resident, struck him with his van on the 2500 block of West Ogden at about 11:50 p.m., police said.
December 9, 2013