Car Crashes into South Suburban Mobile Home Park

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Residents of a south suburban mobile home park are heaving a sigh of relief after a car flipped three times, clipping a mobile home where a woman and her 7-week-old daughter were sleeping.

The car vs. mobile home park accident happened around 5:50 a.m. Saturday at the Rosebud Mobile Home Park, 8800 S. Harlem Ave., Bridgeview.

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Christine Neff was awakened by two large bangs and saw a car on its roof next to her bedroom behind a bay window where she and her infant daughter were sleeping.

“We heard two big bangs … I went to see if my dad was OK,” Neff said. “I looked out the window in his bathroom and saw that there was a car right in the front yard.”

Witnesses said an Acura traveling south on Harlem Avenue hit a light pole before slamming in a brick wall at the entrance to the park at 88th Street and Harlem Avenue. A decorative boulder sent the Acura airborne where the car rolled three times and came to a rest on its roof.

Neff’s mobile home sustained minor damage but said it could have been a lot worse.

“A few more feet and [the car] could have gone through the bay window where my 7-week-old and I were sleeping,” the young mother said.

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The driver of the vehicle managed to get out of the car but his passenger was seriously injured. Neighbors pulled the man out of the car, who was covered in blood and in and out of consciousness.

A witness on the scene said the driver appeared to be in his twenties and was sitting in the back of a Bridgeview police car. The man was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn as a trauma patient.

Patch has reached out to the Bridgeview Police Department and will update the story when more information becomes available.