Early Monday morning, commuters heading out of Chicago got a rude awakening on the Eisenhower Expressway. A gravel hauler truck lost control, slammed into a wall, and flipped directly on top of a car near Wolf Road in Hillside, sending at least one person to the hospital and burying a vehicle under what looked like a small gravel pit.
The incident unfolded on the outbound Eisenhower, also known as I-290, and it did not hold back. Gravel scattered across multiple lanes, emergency crews scrambled to the scene, and the kind of Monday morning commute that people were already dreading got a whole lot worse. Shovels, police tape, and an ambulance were all part of the picture.
Illinois State Police confirmed that one person was transported to a local hospital, though they did not specify whether that individual was the truck driver or the occupant of the car buried underneath it. Given that there was a vehicle pinned under a flipped gravel hauler, the fact that only one person needed medical attention is, frankly, remarkable…