Six people were transported to the hospital after a car failed to yield at a stop sign and caused a crash that left one person trapped in Zion Friday evening, authorities said.
The Zion Police Department and Zion Fire Department responded around 5:15 p.m. Â Friday to 26th Street and Lewis Avenue in Zion for a report of a vehicle crash with injuries.
Police officers and firefighter/medics arrived to find a 2019 Honda Accord sedan and a 2002 Jeep Grand Cherokee SUV involved with heavy damage.
Both vehicles had a driver and two passengers, Zion Police Department Lt. Derek Zaloudek said.
One of the passengers of the Jeep was trapped and had to be extricated by firefighters.
Additional ambulances from the Beach Park, Winthrop Harbor and Zion fire departments responded to the scene.
The Honda – driven by a 19-year-old woman from Zion – was traveling westbound on 26th Street approaching Lewis Avenue, Zaloudek said.
The woman “told officers that she stopped at the stop sign posted for westbound traffic and then proceeded into the intersection, failing to see the northbound Jeep,” which was driven by a 56-year-old Waukegan man, Zaloudek said. A collision then occurred.
The man and his two passengers in the Jeep, along with the woman and her two passengers in the Honda, were transported to area hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries.
Officers issued citations to the woman for failure to yield the right of way to approaching vehicles.
The man driving the Jeep was cited for driving with a revoked license.
Zion police officers and firefighters were kept busy with another crash that occurred at around 6:30 p.m. at Route 173 and Lorelei Drive.
In that crash, a 2015 Jeep Grand Cherokee and a 2010 Ford Edge collided after the Jeep, which was traveling southbound on Lorelei Drive, failed to yield at the stop sign for the Ford, which was traveling westbound on Route 173, Zaloudek said.
Crews evaluated four people – one from the Jeep and three from the Ford – but no one was transported to the hospital.
The driver of the Jeep – a 19-year-old from Zion – was cited for failing to yield the right of way at an intersection, Zaloudek added.