CHICAGO -- Two South Side men were killed early Saturday and two others were injured when the car they were in slammed into a viaduct on the South Side.
The single-car accident happened about 2 a.m. when the car struck the viaduct at East 79th Street and South Stony Island Avenue, according to police News Affairs Officer Hector Alfaro.
A total of four people were in the car that slammed into a pole at the “huge intersection” underneath the Chicago Skyway on Stony Island at 79th, according to a Major Accident Investigation Unit sergeant.
Two passengers were killed in the crash, 54-year-old Lawrence Banner and 36-year old Norman Wade Jr., according to a spokesperson for the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office.
Banner, of 8509 S. East End Ave., and Wade, of 6550 S. Greenwood Ave., were both dead on the scene, the spokesman said.
Two other men in the car, the driver and another passenger, were both hospitalized. One man was taken to John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County with non-life threatening injuries, while the other man “might have had a broken neck” and was set to undergo surgery Saturday at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, the sergeant said.
It appears that alcohol was involved in the crash, but the circumstances surrounding the collision are still under investigation, the sergeant said.
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