{"id":480091,"date":"2025-12-30T13:15:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T13:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/480091\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T13:15:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T13:15:10","slug":"man-charged-after-crash-in-wrigleyville-leaves-2-chicago-police-officers-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/480091\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged after crash in Wrigleyville leaves 2 Chicago police officers injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An 18-year-old man was charged\u00a0after a crash involving a stolen car <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/news\/chicago-police-squad-car-wrecked-wrigleyville-crash\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">left two Chicago police officers with serious injuries <\/a>early Monday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Chicago police said Orlando Matos III, 18, was charged with two felony counts of aggravated reckless driving, a felony count of possession of a stolen vehicle, and citations, including failure to reduce speed and damage to public property.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Just before 3 a.m., a marked Chicago police squad car was headed south on Racine Avenue at Waveland Avenue, about a block west of Wrigley Field, when a Hyundai Elantra that had been reported stolen ran a stop sign and hit the squad car.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the Elantra went on to hit three parked cars, while the squad car was pushed onto the parkway and sidewalk and hit a tree, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Two Chicago police officers suffered serious injuries and were taken to an area hospital for treatment, police said. Their condtions are unknown at this time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police initially said Matos III was taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center in critical condition. Police have not provided an update on his condition.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Matos III is expected in court on Tuesday for a detention hearing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__meta--contributors\">\n<p>                                  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/adam-harrington\/\" class=\"byline__author__link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Adam  Harrington<\/a><\/p>\n<p>        contributed to this report.\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An 18-year-old man was charged\u00a0after a crash involving a stolen car left two Chicago police officers with serious&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":477668,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[8046,960,5386,1818,17953,69869],"class_list":{"0":"post-480091","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-car-crash","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-illinois","12":"tag-police-officers","13":"tag-wrigleyville"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115808706553900550","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480091","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=480091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}