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Woman Airlifted After Collision With Semi-Truck
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A woman was trapped in her Jeep after a semitrailer caused her to crash into a tractor Monday morning near Hebron, authorities said.
The semitrailer was traveling north on Greenwood Road to the south of Tryon Grove Road when it rear-ended a Jeep Cherokee that was following a slow-moving farm tractor towing a water tank, McHenry County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Sandra Rogers said.
The impact caused the Jeep to strike the tractor, and the semitrailer crashed into a ditch.
It took emergency crews 10 minutes to free a woman from the Jeep.
A Flight for Life medical helicopter took the woman to Advocate Condell Medical Center in Libertyville with serious injuries, Hebron-Alden-Greenwood Fire Protection District Chief Thomas Linneman said.
The drivers of the semitrailer and tractor were evaluated at the scene and released.
Fire and emergency crews from Hebron-Alden-Greenwood, Richmond, Woodstock, Wonder Lake and Mercyhealth responded to the incident.
The driver of the semitrailer was cited for failure to reduce speed to avoid a crash.
In a Facebook post Tuesday, the sheriff’s office reminded drivers of the importance of sharing the road with farm equipment.
“[Slow down] and give farm equipment room to work and move,” the post said.
(Source: Ed Komenda, Northwest Herald)
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Woman Airlifted After Collision With Semi-Truck
To Purchase This Photo Visit: www.VuchaPhotography.com/store
©AVucha 2018
A woman was trapped in her Jeep after a semitrailer caused her to crash into a tractor Monday morning near Hebron, authorities said.
The semitrailer was traveling north on Greenwood Road to the south of Tryon Grove Road when it rear-ended a Jeep Cherokee that was following a slow-moving farm tractor towing a water tank, McHenry County Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman Sandra Rogers said.
The impact caused the Jeep to strike the tractor, and the semitrailer crashed into a ditch.
It took emergency crews 10 minutes to free a woman from the Jeep.
A Flight for Life medical helicopter took the woman to Advocate Condell Medical Center in Libertyville with serious injuries, Hebron-Alden-Greenwood Fire Protection District Chief Thomas Linneman said.
The drivers of the semitrailer and tractor were evaluated at the scene and released.
Fire and emergency crews from Hebron-Alden-Greenwood, Richmond, Woodstock, Wonder Lake and Mercyhealth responded to the incident.
The driver of the semitrailer was cited for failure to reduce speed to avoid a crash.
In a Facebook post Tuesday, the sheriff’s office reminded drivers of the importance of sharing the road with farm equipment.
“[Slow down] and give farm equipment room to work and move,” the post said.
(Source: Ed Komenda, Northwest Herald)
This photograph is copyrighted and is being made available only for personal use printing by the subject(s) of the photograph. The photograph may not be manipulated in any way and may not be used in commercial material, advertisements, emails, products, promotions without the expressed consent of Alex Vucha.