{"id":100074,"date":"2026-07-08T21:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T21:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/100074\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T21:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T21:36:10","slug":"driver-flown-with-serious-injuries-after-geneva-crash-shaw-local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/100074\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver flown with serious injuries after Geneva crash \u2013 Shaw Local"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-xb1qmn-0 gBIiEi body-paragraph\">A 30-year-old Bloomingdale man was flown to a hospital Wednesday with serious injuries after a single-vehicle crash in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shawlocal.com\/tags\/geneva\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.shawlocal.com\/tags\/geneva\/\">Geneva<\/a>, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-xb1qmn-0 gBIiEi body-paragraph\">The man was taken to Loyola University Medical Center after the crash that occurred about 1 a.m. Wednesday, July 8, in the 800 block of North Bennett Street\/Illinois Route 25, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shawlocal.com\/tags\/kane-county\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.shawlocal.com\/tags\/kane-county\/\">Kane County<\/a> State\u2019s Attorney\u2019s Office said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-xb1qmn-0 gBIiEi body-paragraph\">According to a preliminary investigation, the man was driving north on North Bennett Street when the vehicle exited the roadway off the east side and struck a brick mailbox, a parked vehicle in a driveway and a utility pole, according to the release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-xb1qmn-0 gBIiEi body-paragraph\">St. Charles police, Geneva Emergency Management Agency and Kane County Office of Emergency Management assisted Geneva police and fire in the response, according to the release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-xb1qmn-0 gBIiEi body-paragraph\">Geneva electric utility staff cut off the power to the utility pole, according to the release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-xb1qmn-0 gBIiEi body-paragraph\">A portion of North Bennett Street\/Illinois Route 25 from Woodward Avenue in Geneva to Moore Avenue in St. Charles was closed overnight while law enforcement and emergency management personnel were on the scene. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-xb1qmn-0 gBIiEi body-paragraph\">The roadway reopened at 7:45 a.m. July 8.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-xb1qmn-0 gBIiEi body-paragraph\">The crash remains under investigation by the Fox Valley Major Crimes Task Force, according to the release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 30-year-old Bloomingdale man was flown to a hospital Wednesday with serious injuries after a single-vehicle crash in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7],"tags":[1979,5586,65,898,1980,305,899],"class_list":["post-100074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-geneva","tag-breaking","tag-crash","tag-geneva","tag-kane-county","tag-kane-county-front-headlines","tag-local","tag-local-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116886515704866775","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}