Palatine police and firefighter/paramedics responded about 9:50 AM Thursday to a report of a crash involving a garbage truck and a power line at Northwest Highway between Benton and Plum Grove Road. police and firefighters on the scene report a utility pole snapped in half with power lines across all lanes of Northwest Highway. Northwest Highway is blocked between Benton and Plum Grove Road.
Traffic situation at 10:04 a.m. on Google map with traffic layer. See current traffic — red line may have gone away even though road is still blocked because Google traffic layer is crowdsourced by detecting cell phones in traffic, and traffic may have cleared the area.
Lanes are expected to open about 10:50 a.m. Thursday.
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