{"id":321871,"date":"2010-02-15T10:39:57","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T15:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\/?p=18708"},"modified":"2010-02-15T10:39:57","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T15:39:57","slug":"woman-suffers-severed-leg-in-i-80-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/321871","title":{"rendered":"Woman suffers severed leg in I-80 crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A woman is in critical condition after one of her legs was severed while getting out of a car early Monday on Interstate 80 near Joliet, Illinois State Police said.<\/p>\n<p>A silver Lincoln Town Car eastbound on Interstate 80 slid on a patch of ice and struck a guardrail near Center Street in Joliet, a state police spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p>A Mercury Sable then apparently slid on the same patch of ice and struck the Lincoln as a woman passenger was exiting the car. <span id=\"more-18708\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The woman&#8217;s injuries included a severed right leg, fractured right arm and left leg, a lacerated spleen and punctured lung, state police said.<\/p>\n<p>She was taken to Provena St. Joseph Medical Center in Joliet, then transferred to Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, state police said.<\/p>\n<p>No information was reported on the condition of the drivers of the either car.<\/p>\n<p>All eastbound lanes were shut down between Larkin Avenue and Chicago Street in Joliet for about 90 minutes while emergency crews responded to the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Distributed via <a href=\"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\" rel='nofollow'>Chicago Press Release Services<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/ZVrPud4IQn2F2ItF37FMGGEt5ZA\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/ZVrPud4IQn2F2ItF37FMGGEt5ZA\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/ZVrPud4IQn2F2ItF37FMGGEt5ZA\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/ZVrPud4IQn2F2ItF37FMGGEt5ZA\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=2jiy_VBALtE:orHJ5ZHh1G4:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=2jiy_VBALtE:orHJ5ZHh1G4:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=2jiy_VBALtE:orHJ5ZHh1G4:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?i=2jiy_VBALtE:orHJ5ZHh1G4:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/windycitynews\/~4\/2jiy_VBALtE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A woman is in critical condition after one of her legs was severed while getting out of a car early Monday on Interstate 80 near Joliet, Illinois State Police said. A silver Lincoln Town Car eastbound on Interstate 80 slid on a patch of ice and struck a guardrail near Center Street in Joliet, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}