In particular, DuSable Lake Shore Drive has seen its fair share.
-- It is hard to imagine anything more frightening on the road than headlights barreling toward you.
Police say the driver of a white sedan was going south in the northbound lanes when he hit a silver sedan head-on. The cars caught fire and both drivers died.in rural McHenry CountyAn entire family was killed by a wrong-way driver on I-90 in McHenry County. Lauren Dobosz and her four children; Emma, Lucas, Nick, and Ella were all killed in the crash, as were 13-year-old Kat Koziara – who was with the family – and the other driver, 22-year-old Jennifer Fernandez.
Data obtained by the CBS 2 Investigators from the Illinois Department of Transportation show wrong-way crashes jumped from 991 statewide in 2020 to 1,140 the following year.The same is true specifically in Chicago. IDOT received reports for 305 wrong-way crashes in 2020, and 376 in 2021."After the pandemic, we're just seeing higher rates of aggression, DePaul University transportation professor Joe Schwieterman.
"It's just sort of the mental overload people feel, that they're driving distracted or thinking about something else – God forbid they're texting - and with that, bad decisions are being made - and it's not a rare exception," he said."It's a pretty disturbing trend."
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