{"id":374999,"date":"2010-03-01T08:27:07","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T13:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chicagopressrelease.com\/press-releases\/idot-vehicle-struck-from-behind-two-injured"},"modified":"2010-03-01T08:27:07","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T13:27:07","slug":"idot-vehicle-struck-from-behind-two-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/374999","title":{"rendered":"IDOT vehicle struck from behind, two injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CHICAGO (CBS\/WBBM) \u2015<\/strong> An IDOT &#8220;minuteman&#8221; driver was injured when a car hit his truck early Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\nAll express lanes on the southbound Dan Ryan Expressway were shut down after the accident.<\/p>\n<p>\nIllinois Department of Transportation truck 953 was blocking a lane on the southbound Dan Ryan while trying to collect a vehicle that was in a lane from an earlier accident, Illinois State Police said.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe IDOT worker was not seriously hurt, but will be taken to an area hospital, state police said.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe driver of the vehicle that hit the IDOT truck was more seriously hurt, but his injuries were not life-threatening, state police said.<\/p>\n<p>\nState police say the crash will &#8220;most likely&#8221; result in the arrest of the driver who hit the IDOT truck, because he is believed to have been impaired at the time.<\/p>\n<p>\nIllinois State Police continue their investigation into the crash.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe IDOT \u201cMinutemen,\u201d or the Emergency Traffic Patrol program, dispatches teams of emergency patrol vehicles and drivers to traffic disruptions and potential safety problems caused by accidents, disabled vehicles, or hazardous debris on high-traffic volume segments of the Illinois interstate system. <\/p>\n<p\/>\n<p>Read the original article from <a  href=\"http:\/\/wbbm780.com\/content_page.php?contentType=4&amp;contentId=5664165\" title=\"IDOT vehicle struck from behind, two injured\" rel='nofollow'>WBBM News Radio<\/a>.<\/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\/ogx51Na8noOPsgkgr_57hEB5idk\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/ogx51Na8noOPsgkgr_57hEB5idk\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/ogx51Na8noOPsgkgr_57hEB5idk\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/ogx51Na8noOPsgkgr_57hEB5idk\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.chicagopressrelease.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?a=FbweHDAnLKg:PgwWdI_fh1s: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=FbweHDAnLKg:PgwWdI_fh1s: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=FbweHDAnLKg:PgwWdI_fh1s:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/windycitynews?i=FbweHDAnLKg:PgwWdI_fh1s:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/windycitynews\/~4\/FbweHDAnLKg\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO (CBS\/WBBM) \u2015 An IDOT &#8220;minuteman&#8221; driver was injured when a car hit his truck early Monday. All express lanes on the southbound Dan Ryan Expressway were shut down after the accident. Illinois Department of Transportation truck 953 was blocking a lane on the southbound Dan Ryan while trying to collect a vehicle that was [&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-374999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374999","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=374999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}