Serious Injuries For Joliet Motorist, 22, After Route 53 Collision With Semi Overnight: Police

JOLIET, IL — A Joliet 22-year-old suffered serious injuries during a middle of the night crash involving a Lockport man's semi-trailer along Route 53, Joliet police revealed.

According to spokesman Dwayne English, at 2:14 a.m. on Friday, the officers responded to Route 53/South Chicago Street, south of Schweitzer Road for a crash with injuries.

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, English pointed out.

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.