{"id":340701,"date":"2025-10-29T12:01:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T12:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/340701\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T12:01:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T12:01:11","slug":"chicago-crime-police-seek-hit-and-run-driver-who-seriously-hurt-bicyclist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/340701\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago crime: Police seek hit-and-run driver who seriously hurt bicyclist"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Chicago Police Department <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\"><strong>CHICAGO<\/strong> &#8211; Police are seeking the driver of a car that hit and seriously injured a bicyclist Tuesday afternoon on Chicago\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/us\/il\/cook-county\/chicago\/near-west-side\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Near West Side<\/a>, police said.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WFLD\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The collision happened around 4:35 p.m. at the intersection of Damen Avenue and Van Buren Street, when a red 2010 Ford Fusion with Illinois license plate BN 64959 struck the northbound cyclist and then fled the scene, according to Chicago police.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The bicyclist sustained serious injuries and was taken to a hospital for treatment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WFLD\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What you can do:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Police are asking anyone who spots the vehicle or has information about the driver to call the Major Accident Investigation Unit at 312-745-4521 or submit an anonymous tip at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.p3tips.com\/TipForm.aspx?ID=727#\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CPDTIP.com<\/a>, referencing case number JJ468724.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\"><b data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source:<\/b> The information in this report came from the Chicago Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/us\/il\/cook-county\/chicago\/near-west-side\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Near West Side<\/a><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\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chicago Police Department CHICAGO &#8211; Police are seeking the driver of a car that hit and seriously injured&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":340702,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5404,6082,5386,1818,132702,50,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-340701","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-il","12":"tag-illinois","13":"tag-near-west-side","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115457352465122920","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340701","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=340701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}