June 12--A man died and two others were critically injured during a single-car rollover crash Thursday evening in South Deering on the Far South Side, authorities said.
The crash happened around 10:05 p.m. in the 11600 block of South Torrence Avenue, police said.
A dark-colored car was traveling southbound on Torrence when the driver hit lost control of the car and struck a fire hydrant on the west side of Torrence and rolled over, knocking over a fire hydrant, police said. The car then flipped over and struck a fence and a porch of a two-story white house.
A 19-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene, said Chicago Police News Affairs Officer Ron Gaines.
An 18-year-old man and a 20-year-old man were taken in critical condition to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, said police and fire department officials.
All three victims were pinned in the car, and it took officials about an hour to extricate the two surving men out of the car, said Chicago Fire Department spokesman Larry Langford.
At the scene of the crash, police officers blocked off the intersection of 116th and Torrence.
A smashed dark-colored car lay flipped-over on the sidewalk in front of three white houses on Torrence immediately south of the 116th Street.
Officers took pictures of the car and measured skid marks the car left on the ground in the southbound lanes of Torrence.
Authorities are still investigating the crash, and it wasn't immediately known why the car's driver lost control.
