Motorist Tails Suspected DUI Driver After O'Hare Hit-And-Run

NORTHFIELD, IL — A 26-year-old woman followed an allegedly drunk hit-and-run driver for close to 15 miles after he struck her car and another car, staying on the phone with police the whole time until he ran off the road just a block from his house in Northfield, police said.

The Chicago woman told police the initial collision happened near O'Hare. She was first able to stop the other driver, but he was uncooperative and did not exchange information, she told police.

"Get the [expletive] out of my way," he told her, before driving away and hitting her car again in the process, according to police reports.

Undeterred, the twice-struck motorist continued following the man, who police later identified as a 39-year-old Northfield man, all the while staying on the phone with dispatchers, Northfield police said.

Eventually, the driver drove off the road around Bosworth and Thackeray lanes in Northfield, where officers showed up as he was trying to leave the scene for a third time that night, according to police reports.

Police said the driver smelled of alcohol and had fresh damage on his vehicle, but denied being in an accident and refused all breath tests.

The 26-year-old Chicago woman spoke to police at the scene and pointed out the matching damage on her vehicle and the apparent paint transfer from the driver's car, which was towed, Northfield police said.

The driver was arrested shortly after midnight on April 27 when he was identified as an offender of a hit and run accident and was charged with one misdemeanor count of driving under the influence, Chicago police confirmed.