Three people were transported to the hospital after a three-vehicle crash resulted in one car catching fire in Lake in the Hills Wednesday afternoon.
The Huntley Fire Protection District and the Lake in the Hills Police Department responded around 2:50 p.m. Wednesday to Algonquin Road and Lakewood Road in Lake in the Hills for a report of a vehicle crash.
Huntley Fire Protection District Battalion Chief Eric Bentley said the crash occurred in the intersection.
Fire crews arrived to find a three-vehicle collision with the vehicles sustaining moderate damage.
Bentley said a small engine fire occurred in one of the cars but a bystander used a fire extinguisher to extinguish the fire before firefighters arrived.
All vehicles were upright and remained in the roadway following the crash. No one was trapped in the car.
Two of the cars sustained front-end damage and the third sustained rear-end damage. Three ambulances were called to the scene.
Three adults from the vehicles were transported by ambulance to Northwestern Medicine Hospital in Huntley, Bentley said. They suffered non-life-threatening injuries.
Bentley said the fire district reminds motorists to move over for emergency vehicles.
The Lake in the Hills Police Department is investigating the cause of the crash.