A 95-year-old woman died following a car crash on the Lower West Side of Chicago. The incident occurred on Monday afternoon.
Police reported that the accident happened shortly after 5 p.m. The elderly victim was traveling in a gray sedan with another woman. They were moving west in the 1900 block of West 18th Street. Their sedan collided with a black truck that was stopped at a traffic light.
The force of the collision pushed the truck into a silver sedan also stopped at the light. Despite the severity of the crash, the occupants of the truck and silver sedan declined medical treatment.
The 95-year-old, identified as Guadalupe Almendarez from the Clearing neighborhood, was taken to Stroger Hospital. She was in critical condition upon arrival and was later pronounced dead. The Cook County medical examiner’s office released her identity.
The Major Accidents Investigation Unit is looking into the crash to determine further details.
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