Two Dead, Four Injured In Dan Ryan Wrecks

CHICAGO -- A man and woman were killed and four others -- including a Chicago firefighter -- were injured in three separate accidents on the Dan Ryan Expressway early Saturday.

The first incident happened near 73rd Street on the inbound Dan Ryan Expressway (I-90/94) about 1:40 a.m., according to Illinois State Police District Chicago Trooper Dan Garcia.

Dominique Bullit, 31, of 4963 S. Charles St. was killed in the crash, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner.

In a second fatal crash early Saturday, a female motorist drove her vehicle down an exit ramp onto oncoming traffic on the Dan Ryan near Stony Island Avenue about 4:30 a.m., according to Illinois State Police District Chicago Trooper Emily Staerk. Her vehicle was traveling south in the northbound lanes when it was struck head-on by a semi truck, she said.

The woman, identified as 44-year-old Sheri Graves, of Jefferson St. in Dolton, was pronounced dead at the scene at 8:30 a.m., by the medical examiner.

In the first fatal crash, Fire Media Affairs Director Larry Langford said a vehicle with three passengers was heading north on the Dan Ryan after a party at a high-rate of speed, weaving lane-to-lane, when the driver attempted to get onto an exit ramp. Instead the vehicle struck a guardrail and rolled over twice ejecting the driver and the front-seat passenger.

The ejected driver landed approximately 50 feet away from the vehicle. He was killed, and the front-seat passenger and two other passengers are all in "serious-to-critical" conditions, two of them in Northwestern Memorial Hospital and the other in Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn.

Chicago firefighters were responding to the fatal crash near 75th Street on the inbound Dan Ryan Expressway when their vehicle was struck by another vehicle, according to Fire Media Affairs. The accidents happened about 1:45 a.m.

The firefighter's injuries are "fairly minor."  He was taken to the University of Chicago Hospitals.

The fire department called an EMS Plan 1 for the crash, which sends five ambulances to the scene, at 1:45 a.m.

A male driver struck the responding fire engine and injured a firefighter. That driver is in custody of Illinois State Police, suspected of drunken driving. He has also been cited for failing to yield to an emergency vehicle.