Three people were critically injured in a crash on the city's West Side.
Three people were critically injured in a crash on the city's West Side, authorities said.
Firefighters were called to the accident near 31st Street and Western Avenue about 8:30 p.m., according to the department's media office.
Fire officials cut three people out of a red Jeep Ford Cherokee after the car lost control and somehow ended up on it's top just west of Western Avenue on 31st Street, police said.
Three people had been riding in the car and all were taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, police said.
Just before 10 p.m., the radio in the car -- which was flipped on its top -- could still be heard faintly from a distance.
It was a one car rollover and no other vehicles were involved, police said.
"Some of the damage is from the fire department," police said of the doors, which had been cut to free the car's occupants. "But they flipped the car themselves.
Investigators from the department's Major Accidents Investigations Unit arrived at the scene Thursday night to investigate what had happened.
Three people were taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, one in "extremely critical" condition, two in critical condtion, according to the fire department.
An auto rolled over, at some point hitting a city light pole, seriously injuring three people, said Chicago Police News Affairs Officer Veejay Zala.
Video from the scene showed a red Jeep flipped over, with its roof crushed, and a person wrapped in black on a stretcher being taken into an ambulance.
The Police Major Accident Investigation unit referred calls to News Affairs.
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