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Crash shuts down Route 53 for 1 hour Thursday morning

Semi driver turned in front of a pickup truck

April 22, 2021 at 11:30 am CDT

Photo of an emergency light. (Shaw Media file photo)

Route 53 near Laraway Road was closed for an hour Thursday morning due to a crash with a minor injury.

Shortly before 6:45 a.m., Joliet police officers responded to the area of Illinois Route 53 and Dollar Tree Lane, according to Joliet Police Department spokesman Sgt. Dwayne English.

English said the preliminary investigation showed a semitrailer turning left from Dollar Tree Lane, across the southbound lanes of Route 53, in front of a pickup truck. The truck collided with the semi’s trailer.

The driver of the semitrailer was a 25-year-old man from Lansing, and he was cited in the crash, English said.

The driver of the pickup was a 24-year-old man from Joliet. He suffered a minor injury in the crash and refused medical treatment, English said.

Denise M. Baran-Unland

Denise M. Baran-Unland is the features editor for The Herald-News in Joliet. She covers a variety of human interest stories. She also writes the long-time weekly tribute feature “An Extraordinary Life about local people who have died. She studied journalism at the College of St. Francis in Joliet, now the University of St. Francis.