{"id":313496,"date":"2025-10-18T13:29:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T13:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/313496\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T13:29:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T13:29:16","slug":"chicago-crash-2-killed-3-hurt-in-south-side-crash-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/313496\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago crash: 2 killed, 3 hurt in South Side crash, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\"><strong>CHICAGO<\/strong> &#8211; A crash on the city\u2019s South Side on Friday night left two people dead and three others in the hospital.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The crash happened in the 7500 block of S. Vincennes Avenue in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/us\/il\/cook-county\/chicago\/greater-grand-crossing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Greater Grand Crossing<\/a> neighborhood, according to the Chicago Police Department.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WFLD\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">A 37-year-old driver of a gray Buick sedan was traveling westbound when she tried to turn left southbound and failed to yield at the intersection, police said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The Buick then hit a black Dodge traveling eastbound.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Inside the Dodge were five occupants: a 15-year-old girl, an 18-year-old woman, a 20-year-old man, a 25-year-old woman, and the 26-year-old male driver.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The 18-year-old woman and the 20-year-old man were taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where they died.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">They were identified as Matthew Cuadra, 20, and April M. Valencia, 18, both of Lansing, Illinois, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The other occupants were also hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries, police said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">A parked gray Mercedes sedan, which was unoccupied at the time of the crash, was also hit.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The driver of the Buick was issued a citation for failing to yield. The Major Accidents Investigative Unit is investigating the crash.<\/p>\n<p>     <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/us\/il\/cook-county\/chicago\/greater-grand-crossing\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Greater Grand Crossing<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO &#8211; A crash on the city\u2019s South Side on Friday night left two people dead and three&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":224342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5404,6082,63578,5386,1818,50,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-313496","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-cook-county","10":"tag-crime-publicsafety","11":"tag-greater-grand-crossing","12":"tag-il","13":"tag-illinois","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115395413079022408","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}