Four people hurt after pickup truck crashes into apartment building in Woodlawn
Four people were injured and a Chicago family's home was badly damaged, after a pickup truck slammed into their apartment building in Woodlawn on Saturday morning.
Police said, around 6:15 a.m., a Dodge pickup truck crashed into a home in the 600 block of East Marquette Road.
No one inside the 3-flat knew what hit them.
"When I heard the boom, it sounded like an explosion," Leslie Johnson said. "I started flipping the debris, throwing the debris, trying to get my son."
Johnson was on the first floor, and Randolph Moran was right above.
"Almost like an earthquake. I was getting ready to take a shower, and I heard it, and when I came out and looked, I saw the truck," Moran said.
Before crashing into the brick building, the pickup truck driver took out a light pole, knocking it right off of its concrete base.
"They had to be going pretty fast," Moran said.
"If I wouldn't have heard my neighbors screaming, I would've thought somebody threw a bomb in the house," Johnson said.
Johnson was inside the home with eight family members at the time, including her three grandkids.
"Two of them that's here for the family reunion," she said.
That family reunion was ruined.
"My grandson, he's still at Comer [Children's Hospital," Johnson said.
Her 12-year-old grandson, Jahad Anderson, was buried in debris.
"He has to get stitches in his back," she said.
Two of her sons were also treated at the hospital.
Police said the female driver, whose age has not been confirmed, was issued three citations and taken into custody.
"She wasn't the driver. She's not the driver. It's a man that's the driver," Johnson said.
Johnson said a man seen bleeding and covered in dust ran off with another man, but police couldn't confirm those details.
The home has been boarded up. The family said they have never taken a hit like this.
"We're trying to find a place to go now," Johnson said.
Police said the three people injured all were taken to the hospital in good condition. The woman who was taken into custody also was hospitalized in good condition.
