Cook County, IL : 24-year-old man dies, three injured in two vehicle crash on Cleveland Street in Calumet Township on Tuesday, May 24, 2016
A 24-year-old man was killed and three others were injured Tuesday in a two-vehicle crash on Cleveland Street, officials said.
Adonis Florence was headed north in a black 1997 Honda Accord when he crossed the center line and drove into the path of a silver 2004 Volvo sedan about 10 a.m. near 46th Avenue and Cleveland Street, officials said.
The driver of the Volvo, a 26-year-old Hammond woman, was extricated from her car by the Lake Ridge Fire Department and taken to a local hospital, Lake County sheriff's spokesman Mark Back said. The woman later was flown to an Illinois hospital for further treatment.
The woman's passenger, a 37-year-old Griffith woman, was found outside the vehicle in critical condition and taken to a local hospital, police said.
A passenger Florence's car, a 7-year-old Hammond boy, was taken to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Florence died at the scene from blunt force trauma, according to the Lake County coroner's office.
The coroner's office said Florence lived in Gary. The Sheriff's Department said he was from East Chicago.
The cause of the crash remained under investigation, Back said.
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