Bicyclist Injured in Rear End Crash into Parked Car on Evergreen Ave Mount Prospect

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A bicyclist crashed into the rear end of parked car on Evergreen Avenue in Mount Prospect Wednesday afternoon, August 16, 2023. YouTube Tips ⓘ

Mount Prospect police, firefighters, and paramedics responded about 2:40 p.m. Wednesday, August 16, 2023 to a report that a bicyclist crashed with a car in the block of 900 East Evergreen Avenue in Mount Prospect. The bicyclist was seriously injured, but was not initially assessed to be suffering life-threatening injuries.




The bicyclist, traveling westbound on Evergreen Avenue, crashed into the back of a sedan that was parked at the westbound lane curb of Evergreen Avenue just east of George Street in Mount Prospect. The crash shattered the entire rear window of the mid- to full-size sedan, and also caused vehicle body damage in the rear trunk area of the car, which was legally parked on the street. Initially, there was no information available about why the bicyclist failed to avoid crashing into the car.

Mount Prospect police block Evergreen Avenue while Mount Prospect Fire Department paramedics treat an injured bicyclist who crashed into a parked car on Wednesday afternoon, August 16, 2023 (CARDINAL NEWS)
Mount Prospect police block Evergreen Avenue while Mount Prospect Fire Department paramedics treat an injured bicyclist who crashed into a parked car on Wednesday afternoon, August 16, 2023 (CARDINAL NEWS).

The crash occurred a little over an hour after a landscaping worker walked off a trailer ramp at a job site and was hit by a passing work van about two blocks south of the location where the bicycle crash would occur.. The landscaper was seriously injured and transported by Des Plaines Fire Department paramedics to a nearby hospital. Mount Prospect and Des Plaines police, firefighters, and paramedics responded to the crash on Mount Prospect Road because the location was near the border of Mount Prospect and Des Plaines. The Mount Prospect Road incident was located in the jurisdiction of Des Plaines.

A landscaping employee was struck by a van Wednesday, August 16, 2023 in Des Plaines at the border with Mount Prospect, and was one of six pedestrians or bicyclists that were injured in crashes in the northwest suburbs Wednesday, August 16, 2023 between 1:04 p.m. and 5:17 p.m. (CARDINAL NEWS)
A landscaping employee was struck by a work van Wednesday, August 16, 2023 in Des Plaines at the border with Mount Prospect, and was one of six pedestrians or bicyclists that were injured in crashes in the northwest suburbs Wednesday, August 16, 2023 between 1:04 p.m. and 5:17 p.m. (CARDINAL NEWS).




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