Driver Seriously Injured After Essington Road Car Crash: Cops

PLAINFIELD, IL — The driver of a Dodge sustained life-threatening injuries after a head-on collision with an oncoming semi-truck on Essington Road Tuesday.

Plainfield police and fire crews responded to the crash, which happened near Route 126, around 12:11 p.m. The preliminary investigation shows the Dodge Challenger was driving north on Essington Road when his car veered into oncoming traffic and was hit by a Peterbilt semi-truck hauling a loaded gravel trailer, police told Patch.

The Dodge driver was airlifted to Good Samaritan Hospital in Downers Grove with life-threatening injures, police said. The truck driver was treated on-scene and released.

When the crash occurred, the driver of the muscle car had just passed Route 126, and the semi was coming from Pilcher Road. This stretch of Essington Road is being cleaned up, as of 3 p.m. Tuesday, and remains blocked off to traffic.

The Route 126 exit ramp off southbound I-55 was temporarily closed to traffic but reopened around 1 p.m. Tuesday.