An Illinois Department of Transportation worker was hospitalized after a car crashed into the worker’s truck that was stationary in a work zone on Route 120 near McHenry.
The McHenry Township Fire Protection District and McHenry County Sheriff’s Office responded around 4:41 a.m. Friday to the area of Route 120 and East Wonder Lake Road in unincorporated McHenry for a vehicle crash.
McHenry Township Fire Protection District Battalion Chief Chris Kozel said crews arrived and found a car had hit an Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) truck.
The car struck the IDOT vehicle while the truck was stationary.
The IDOT vehicle was in a work zone where at least three or four poles were leaning after the severe weather on Thursday evening, Kozel said.
The poles leaning left the road unsafe for travel and it was shut down so repairs could be made.
Kozel said paramedics transported the driver of the IDOT vehicle to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
The car that struck the truck was uninjured and declined transport to the hospital.
“We are aware of an incident early this morning on Illinois 120 and Wonder Lake Road in McHenry that resulted in an IDOT truck being struck,” a spokesperson for IDOT told Lake and McHenry County Scanner.
The spokesperson said the IDOT highway maintainer was in the truck when it was hit. They were taken to the hospital and later released.
“Our thoughts and concerns are with our coworker. No other details are available at this time,” the IDOT spokesperson said.
A second crash — not involving IDOT — occurred at the same exact intersection two hours later around 6:50 a.m., Kozel said.
It involved two passenger cars and one person was transported to the hospital, Kozel said. The second driver involved declined transport.
The crashes remain under investigation by the McHenry County Sheriff’s Office.