{"id":19019,"date":"2025-02-26T16:01:26","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T16:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/two-injured-when-large-steel-pipes-roll-off-flatbed-driving-through-chicago\/"},"modified":"2025-02-26T16:01:26","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T16:01:26","slug":"two-injured-when-large-steel-pipes-roll-off-flatbed-driving-through-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/two-injured-when-large-steel-pipes-roll-off-flatbed-driving-through-chicago\/","title":{"rendered":"Two injured when large steel pipes roll off flatbed driving through Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_84\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>Two motorists were hurt on a highway in Chicago on Tuesday night after a large load of pipes rolled off of a semi truck.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The accident happened on February 25th at about 7:23 p.m. in the northbound lanes of the\u00a0 Kennedy Expressway in Chicago, Illinois.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7chicago.com\/post\/chicago-traffic-2-injured-steel-pipes-fall-off-truck-kennedy-expressway-downtown-illinois-state-police-say\/15956268\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ABC 7 Chicago<\/a>, the large steel pipes fell off of a flatbed semi truck as it was driving along the expressway. The pipes struck at least three <a href=\"https:\/\/cdllife.com\/2025\/a-pickup-and-semi-truck-avoid-pinballing-off-of-each-other-and-into-oncoming-traffic-but-barely\/\">cars traveling nearby<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"370\" src=\"https:\/\/cdllife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-26-at-9.28.05-AM-600x370.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-121267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdllife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-26-at-9.28.05-AM-600x370.png 600w, https:\/\/cdllife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-26-at-9.28.05-AM-300x185.png 300w, https:\/\/cdllife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-26-at-9.28.05-AM-150x93.png 150w, https:\/\/cdllife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-26-at-9.28.05-AM-768x474.png 768w, https:\/\/cdllife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-26-at-9.28.05-AM-696x429.png 696w, https:\/\/cdllife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-26-at-9.28.05-AM-1068x659.png 1068w, https:\/\/cdllife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-26-at-9.28.05-AM.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>Two motorists were transported to a hospital with non life threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Crews were forced to temporarily close all lanes as they worked to move pipes over to the shoulder of the expressway.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Illinois Department of Transportation was able to bring heavy equipment to the scene and clear the pipes at around 6:45 a.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cdllife.com\/2025\/two-injured-when-large-steel-pipes-roll-off-flatbed-driving-through-chicago\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two motorists were hurt on a highway in Chicago on Tuesday night after a large load of pipes rolled off of a semi truck.\u00a0 The accident happened on February 25th at about 7:23 p.m. in the northbound lanes of the\u00a0 Kennedy Expressway in Chicago, Illinois.\u00a0 According to ABC 7 Chicago, the large steel pipes fell&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19019"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pro-truckdrivers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}