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Motorcyclist in critical condition after crashing into police squad, injuring officer in Barrington Hills

Posted in Accidents, Lake & McHenry County Scanner, VBHPD on August 6, 2025| 1 Comment »

An 18-year-old man is in critical condition after crashing into a pole and a police car at Bartlett Road and Old Bartlett Road in Barrington Hills Tuesday evening. | Photo: Nick Rusin

By Sam Borcia  | Lake & McHenry County Scanner

A motorcyclist is in critical condition after crashing into a police squad reportedly at a high rate of speed, leaving a police officer injured, in Barrington Hills Tuesday evening.

A Barrington Hills police officer was on duty around 11:33 p.m. Tuesday when his squad was involved in a crash with a motorcycle.

Barrington Hills Police Department Media Relations Officer William Walsh said the incident happened at Bartlett Road and Old Bartlett Road in Barrington Hills.

An 18-year-old man is in critical condition after crashing into a pole and a police car at Bartlett Road and Old Bartlett Road in Barrington Hills Tuesday evening. | Photo: Nick Rusin

The Barrington-Countryside Fire Protection District, Barrington Fire Department and Hoffman Estates Fire Department responded to the scene.

A preliminary investigation showed a 2013 Suzuki motorcycle was traveling northbound on Bartlett Road.

The Suzuki failed to negotiate the curve, struck a utility pole and then collided with the marked police squad, Walsh said.

An 18-year-old man is in critical condition after crashing into a pole and a police car at Bartlett Road and Old Bartlett Road in Barrington Hills Tuesday evening. | Photo: Nick Rusin

The squad had been stopped at the time at the stop sign on Old Bartlett Road at the intersection with Bartlett Road.

An initial report indicated the officer was trapped in his patrol vehicle.

Walsh said the officer was transported to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

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The reason Route 59 was closed in North Barrington yesterday

Posted in Accidents, Traffic on March 28, 2025| Leave a Comment »

The sheriff’s office shuts down Route 59 near Golfview Drive in North Barrington after a two-vehicle head-on crash sent three people to the hospital, including one person who had life-threatening injuries, Thursday afternoon. | Photo: Nick Rusin

By Sam Borcia | Lake & McHenry County Scanner

A woman was critically injured and a man was seriously injured after a head-on crash left a vehicle severely damaged and two victims trapped on Route 59 in North Barrington.

The Lake County Sheriff’s Office and Lake Zurich Fire Rescue Department responded around 11:15 a.m. Thursday to the area of Route 59 and Golfview Drive in North Barrington for a vehicle crash with injuries.

Lake County Sheriff’s Office Detective Sergeant Matthew Harmon said the two-vehicle crash occurred south of Golfview Drive on Route 59.

The sheriff’s office shuts down Route 59 near Golfview Drive in North Barrington after a two-vehicle head-on crash sent three people to the hospital, including one person who had life-threatening injuries, Thursday afternoon. | Photo: Nick Rusin

A preliminary investigation showed that a Ford van was traveling northbound on Route 59 when it crossed the center line for unknown reasons.

The Ford, driven by a 23-year-old Round Lake Heights man, collided head-on with a southbound Subaru SUV, Harmon said.

Lake Zurich Fire/Rescue Chief David Pilgard said the two occupants of the Subaru were trapped in the wreckage. The driver of the Ford was not trapped.

The sheriff’s office shuts down Route 59 near Golfview Drive in North Barrington after a two-vehicle head-on crash sent three people to the hospital, including one person who had life-threatening injuries, Thursday afternoon. | Photo: Nick Rusin

Pilgard said that additional resources were called to the scene due to the complexity of the incident, including the extensive damage and victims trapped.

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3 hospitalized after two-vehicle crash leaves SUV rolled over, victim trapped in Barrington Hills

Posted in Accidents, BCFPD, VBHPD on December 18, 2024| Leave a Comment »

A two-vehicle crash left one car rolled over at Old Sutton Road and Dundee Road in Barrington Hills and sent three people to the hospital Monday evening. | Photo: Nick Rusin

By Sam Borcia | Lake & McHenry County Scanner 

Three people were hospitalized after a two-vehicle crash that left one of the SUVs rolled over, trapping one of the victims inside, in Barrington Hills Monday evening.

The Barrington-Countryside Fire Protection District and Barrington Hills Police Department responded around 5:35 p.m. Monday to Old Sutton Road and Dundee Road for a report of a vehicle crash with injuries.

Fire crews arrived to find a two-vehicle crash with one car rolled over onto its side.

A two-vehicle crash left one car rolled over at Old Sutton Road and Dundee Road in Barrington Hills and sent three people to the hospital Monday evening. | Photo: Nick Rusin

Barrington Hills Police Department Press Information Officer William Walsh said a 2016 Jeep Renegade was traveling southbound on Old Sutton Road.

The Jeep, driven by a 20-year-old woman, was turning onto eastbound Route 68.

The Jeep failed to yield at the stop and was struck by a 2025 Mazda CX-90, Walsh said.

A two-vehicle crash left one car rolled over at Old Sutton Road and Dundee Road in Barrington Hills and sent three people to the hospital Monday evening. | Photo: Nick Rusin

The Mazda, which was driven by a 56-year-old woman, was traveling eastbound on Route 68 at the time.

The Jeep rolled over onto its side off of the roadway following the impact. A utility box was knocked over in the process.

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Editorial: Chicago must keep ShotSpotter. The data leaves no doubt.

Posted in Accidents, Chicago Tribune, Crime, OP/Ed, Politics, Preckwinkle's Rules of Order, Unions on September 15, 2024| Leave a Comment »

Editorial cartoonist Scott Stantis on ShotSpotter for for Sun, Sept 15, 2024. (Scott Stantis/For the Chicago Tribune)

The Editorial Board | Chicago Tribune

There now is no question that Chicago needs the gunfire detection technology known as ShotSpotter.

We sympathize with those who wish this financially strapped city did not have use for an expensive system designed to get police officers more quickly to a bloody scene on its streets. We dearly wish the same. But the data is clear. Need it we do. To remove it will cost the lives of Chicagoans.

Back in May, we noted that whatever arguments had been made against ShotSpotter as a tool to catch and arrest violent criminals were ignoring something yet more important: the technology’s ability to get help quickly for shooting victims, including those rapidly bleeding to death. In an ideal city, people would call 911 and emergency workers would rush immediately to the scene; heck, in an ideal city, those scenes would never materialize in the first place. But we do not inhabit such a halcyon place. In the here and now, those scenes play out every weekend.

On Thursday, this newspaper published an op-ed piece by researchers from the University of Chicago’s Crime Lab using new data from their work in the field. The conclusion? ShotSpotter saves lives.

When Joe Ferguson, then the city’s inspector general, wrote a 2021 report on the Chicago Police Department’s use of ShotSpotter, he rightly made the point that more data was needed. On Thursday, we published more data.

The Crime Lab methodology looked at the differences between what happened at shooting scenes right at the boundaries of adjoining police districts — those that have ShotSpotter and those that do not. The idea was to capture as much of a like environment as possible. Districts have to be divided somewhere and if you look right at where they meet, then other demographic and socioeconomic factors are far less likely to come into play; researchers in other fields, such as education, use the same technique.

What did the University of Chicago researchers find? “After ShotSpotter goes live, fatality rates are about 4 percentage points lower in the areas with the technology. With an overall fatality rate of 17%, this is about a one-quarter drop in the odds the victim dies.”

And if that were not persuasive enough? “Given the number of shootings each year in the police districts that currently have ShotSpotter, there is, roughly speaking, a 3-in-4 chance that the technology saves about 85 lives per year. That comes from multiplying a 4-percentage-point change in the fatality rate by the total number of shootings in the ShotSpotter areas, equal to 2,124 in 2023.”

That’s written in hedged data speak, not the kind of fevered political debate you might find on the floor of the City Council. But only a fool cannot see that makes for determinative evidence that ShotSpotter saves a lot of lives by getting help to victims sooner.

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Insurance premiums could jump ANOTHER 10% before year’s end

Posted in Accidents, Cook, County, Topics Of Interest, Traffic on September 14, 2024| Leave a Comment »

By Jim Talamonti | The Center Square

Vehicle owners in Illinois can expect to pay even more for insurance before the end of this year.

An insurance quotes comparison platform released a report that projects a total increase of 31% in auto insurance premiums in Illinois this year.

Chase Gardner is the data insights manager for Insurify.

“In Illinois, we’ve seen rates go up already 21% this year through August. The average cost of a policy for full coverage just broke $2,000 a year there,” Gardner said.

Gardner said that Insurify estimates that rates will rise another 10% before Jan. 1, 2025.

Illinois State Sen. Craig Wilcox said proposals by Illinois Democrats would push rates even higher, if insurance agencies could no longer check credit scores or zip codes.

“If you want to talk about being penalized for absolutely having been a responsible citizen for a while, that would be devastating to just about everybody in Illinois’ premium rates,” Wilcox said.

Earlier this year, Illinois State Rep. Will Guzzardi proposed House Bill 4767, which would force insurance companies to apply for state approval to change rates.

Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias supported the measure, saying it would give the state Department of Insurance broad authority to regulate rate hikes.

State Rep. Jeff Keicher opposed the legislation, saying that insurance companies do not consider race, national origin, or religion when setting rates.

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Bicyclist suffers apparent serious injuries after being struck by vehicle in Barrington Hills

Posted in Accidents, Bicyclists, VBHPD on August 27, 2024| Leave a Comment »

By Sam Borcia | Lake & McHenry County Scanner

A bicyclist was rushed to the hospital with apparent serious injuries after being struck by a vehicle in Barrington Hills Saturday morning.

The Algonquin-Lake in the Hills Police Department and Barrington Hills Police Department responded around 8:38 a.m. Saturday to the area of Haegers Bend Road and North River Road in Barrington Hills for a crash with injuries.

Fire officials said the crash involved a vehicle and a bicycle.

An adult riding on the bicycle was found injured when paramedics arrived.

Officers reported the bicyclist suffered a head injury after the crash with the SUV.

A medical helicopter was initially placed on standby and then requested to respond and land at St. Margaret Mary School in Algonquin.

The helicopter had an initial estimated time of arrival of 16 minutes.

Paramedics decided to rush the victim by ambulance to Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital in Barrington instead of waiting for the helicopter.

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6 hospitalized, including infant, after three-vehicle rollover crash near hospital in Barrington

Posted in Accidents, IDOT, Road construction on August 2, 2024| Leave a Comment »

A three-vehicle crash on Route 22 west of Harbor Road in unincorporated Barrington near Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital sent six people to the hospital Friday (?) afternoon. | Photo: Nick Rusin

By Sam Borcia | Lake & McHenry County Scanner

Six people, including an infant, were transported to hospitals after a three-vehicle head-on crash that left one car rolled over next to a hospital near Barrington.

The Lake County Sheriff’s Office and Barrington-Countryside Fire Protection District responded around 1:30 p.m. Friday (?) to the area of Route 22 west of Harbor Road in unincorporated Barrington for a rollover crash with injuries.

A preliminary investigation shows a 2018 Volvo T6, driven by a 34-year-old Cary woman, was traveling eastbound on Route 22, according to Lake County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Chief Christopher Covelli.

A three-vehicle crash on Route 22 west of Harbor Road in unincorporated Barrington near Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital sent six people to the hospital Friday (?) afternoon. | Photo: Nick Rusin

The driver of the Volvo drifted into the westbound lanes of traffic as she reached into her backseat, which resulted in the Volvo striking a westbound 2011 Toyota Corolla.

Covelli said the Toyota, driven by an 84-year-old Huntley man, was struck head-on.

The impact caused the Volvo to flip onto its side after first striking another westbound vehicle, a 2024 Subaru Forester, driven by a 41-year-old man from Neenah, Wisconsin, Covelli said.

Read more here.

Related: “Illinois 22 resurfacing begins July 29th (ish)”

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Wanted vehicle recklessly fleeing from police in Fox River Grove causes 3-vehicle crash in Barrington

Posted in Accidents, Crime, Jewel-Osco on May 10, 2024| Leave a Comment »

A three-vehicle crash near Route 14 and Hart Road in Barrington was caused by a vehicle recklessly fleeing from police from the Jewel-Osco in Fox River Grove Thursday evening. | Photo: Nick Rusin

By Sam Borcia | Lake & McHenry County Scanner

A wanted suspect vehicle fleeing from police in Fox River Grove caused a three-vehicle crash that left one person injured and a mail truck rolled over on Route 14 in Barrington.

The Fox River Police Department responded just before 5:20 p.m. Thursday to the Jewel-Osco, 800 Northwest Highway, for a report of a vehicle in the parking lot wanted in a retail theft.

Fox River Grove Police Chief Eric Waitrovich said loss prevention was aware of a vehicle that committed a retail theft at the Jewel-Osco in Barrington earlier in the day.

An officer responded and spotted the vehicle in the Fox River Grove Jewel-Osco parking lot.

A three-vehicle crash near Route 14 and Hart Road in Barrington was caused by a vehicle recklessly fleeing from police from the Jewel-Osco in Fox River Grove Thursday evening. | Photo: Nick Rusin

The officer attempted to stop the vehicle, a red 2016 Chevrolet sedan, and the car fled from the officer.

The Chevrolet traveled eastbound on Route 14 at a high rate of speed while driving recklessly, Waitrovich said.

Waitrovich said the officer was not actively pursuing the car but continued following at a safe distance.

The Barrington Police Department was notified that the car was heading into their jurisdiction.

A three-vehicle crash near Route 14 and Hart Road in Barrington was caused by a vehicle recklessly fleeing from police from the Jewel-Osco in Fox River Grove Thursday evening. | Photo: Nick Rusin

The Chevrolet soon after caused a three-vehicle crash near Route 14 and Hart Road in Barrington.

The crash involved the Chevrolet along with a yellow Nissan and a USPS mail truck, Waitrovich said. The vehicles ended up in the ditch along Route 14.

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Box truck hits Robert Parker Coffin Bridge in Long Grove; over 50th time bridge has been struck

Posted in Accidents, SNAFU on April 26, 2024| Leave a Comment »

A box truck struck the Robert Parker Coffin Bridge near Robert Parker Coffin Road and Schaeffer Road in Long Grove Friday morning. | Photo Submitted to Lake and McHenry County Scanner

By Sam Borcia | Lake & McHenry County Scanner

An oversized box truck became stuck after striking the historic bridge in Long Grove Friday morning. The bridge has been hit well over 50 times in recent years.

A bystander told Lake and McHenry County Scanner the incident happened just before 10:30 a.m. Friday.

A box truck was traveling eastbound on Robert Parker Coffin Road passing Schaeffer Road in Long Grove.

The truck, which was over the posted height requirement, attempted to cross the Robert Parker Coffin Bridge and struck the bridge’s canopy, resulting in the truck becoming stuck.

A box truck struck the Robert Parker Coffin Bridge near Robert Parker Coffin Road and Schaeffer Road in Long Grove Friday morning. | Photo Submitted to Lake and McHenry County Scanner

The Lake County Sheriff’s Office and a tow truck responded to the scene.

More here.

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Driver hits Advocate Health Club pool building in Barrington causing the pool to close

Posted in Accidents, Topics Of Interest on April 20, 2024| 1 Comment »

Per an Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital Health & Fitness Center Facebook posting:

“The Natatorium is Closed Until Further Notice. On 4/18/24, a car struck the building, resulting in damage to our interior and exterior walls. The city of Barrington evaluated our facility within an hour of the accident and concluded that all areas of the building aside from the incident location were safe. As the structural damage occurred in the location of the Natatorium, we will be temporarily closing the pool while we determine the repairs needed. We will continue to send updates as we receive them and work with contractors.”

This is reminiscent of the time a decade ago when a man drove his car into a resident’s swimming pool (See “Barrington Hills family saved man who drove into their pool”). The driver was charged with DUI.

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