Traffic & Transit
Midlothian Woman Hospitalized After Car Struck By Oncoming Metra Train
The 50-year-old driver was taken to Christ Hospital after officials said her vehicle was struck by the train on the Metra Rock Island line.
MIDLOTHIAN, IL — A 50-year-old Midlothian woman was taken to an Oak Lawn hospital early Tuesday morning after her car was struck by an oncoming Metra train, a spokesman said.
The crash took place just before 5 a.m. on Metra’s Rock Island line at the Crawford crossing in Midlothian, Metra spokesman Michael Gillis told Patch. The train, which had left Joliet at 4:20 a.m., collided with the car, which was traveling north on Crawford.
The crash forced more than 100 commuters on the train to be transferred to the next inbound train and caused a series of cancelations and delays while Metra police attended to the crash.
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Gillis said he did not know the condition of the driver of the 2011 Mitsubishi, which was involved in the crash. A spokeswoman for Advocate Christ Hospital said that she could not provide information about the woman's condition without her name.
A Metra spokeswoman told Patch that Metra Police will not make that information public at this time.
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