May 06--A man driving a Dodge Caravan died and another man was injured in a four-vehicle, chain-reaction collision Friday morning on the inbound Kennedy Expressway, authorities said.
The Northwest Side crash occurred around 7:35 a.m. near a southbound ramp from Harlem Avenue, according to an Illinois State Police sergeant.
One person was pinned in a vehicle and was taken to Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge in serious condition, said Chicago Fire Department spokesman Jeff Lyle.
That person, a man in his early 20s, was pronounced dead at Lutheran General, according to Trooper Woodrow Montgomery.
Montgomery described the wreck as a chain-reaction crash during which the Caravan rear-ended another vehicle.
Another person, a 42-year-old Chicago man, was injured, Montgomery said.
Lyle said he was in fair-to-serious condition to Resurrection Medical Center, Lyle said.
The man who died was behind the wheel of a purple Dodge Caravan that was southbound at a high rate of speed when it rear-ended a white Ford pickup truck. That collision forced the pickup into the back of a blue Chevorlet Cruze, which then rear-ended a purple Ford Explorer, according to state police.
The only vehicle that was moving at the time of the crash was the Caravan, which did not slow down or brake before the collision, state police said.
At about 10:30 a.m. the wreckage was cleared and all lanes were back open, a state trooper said.
All four of the motorists were wearing their seatbelts, Montgomery said.
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