Just before 2:15am Friday, emergency crews responded to Route 53 south of Schweitzer Road for a report of a crash with injuries.
The preliminary investigation indicates that a 22-year-old Joliet man was driving a Pontiac G8 southbound on Route 53 when the Pontiac struck the rear driver’s side of a semi-trailer. The trailer was being hauled by a Peterbilt semi-truck driven by a 53-year-old Lockport man who had turned south onto Route 53 from a private drive. An additional vehicle was damaged when it struck debris from the crash.
The Joliet Fire Department transported the driver of the Pontiac to Silver Cross Hospital with serious injuries. The other two drivers were uninjured. Route 53 was closed for several hours while members of the Joliet Police Traffic Unit reconstructed the crash scene…