Roads Are Treacherous with Light Snow; Multiple Crashes on Route 53 from Palatine Rd to US 20; I-390 at Mitchell

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There are multiple crashes in both directions with slick conditions on Route 53 between Palatine Road and US 20. Multiple vehicles are involved in spinouts and crashes with vehicles stopped and faced in all directions on segments of Route 53.

Two inside lanes are blocked with a crash on northbound Route 53 at Northwest Highway. Rolling Meadows firefighter/paramedics responded to the personal injury crash on Route 53 at Northwest Highway. Two male patients were reported unconscious with their heads down at that crash, which involved a pickup truck crashed into the center wall.

Multiple cars hit the wall on northbound Route 53 near Kirchoff Road.

Multiple cars crashed at Higgins Road.

Crashes also reported at Algonquin Road. A vehicle crashed into the wall at southbound Route 53 at Algonquin Road. A crash is also located southbound in the local lanes near Algonquin Road, where a van hit the center wall. There is also a crash in the northbound local lanes. Schaumburg firefighter/paramedics are checking for injured crash victims near Algonquin Road and Higgins Road.

Multiple crashes on southbound Route 53 just south of Palatine Road.

Firefighters are moving from crash to crash.

Unknown locations on Route 53 …

overturned trailer truck

There is also a crash on the Elgin-O’Hare Expressway (I-390) near Mitchell Boulevard. I-390 is congested eastbound from Wright Boulevard to I-290.


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