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Multi-vehicle crash near Wabash and OntarioChicago IL

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N Wabash Ave & E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611

As discussed during the dispatch call, emergency dispatch audio indicates a possible multi-vehicle traffic accident involving a blue Kia K5, a Chevy Equinox, and a black Volkswagen Atlas near the intersection of N Wabash Ave and E Ontario St in Chicago. The caller mentioned the incident may have started near Chicago and Rush. Officers discussed vehicle details and license plate numbers, which have been withheld for privacy.

Audio|Heard on: Chicago Police Department Zone 04
Listen to dispatch call
02:8
Transcript:
00:00
1802 Sam.
00:05
802 Sam, no footage on that.
00:08
All right, did you have anything Wabash and Ontario? Because that's where apparently this started at.
00:15
Let me take a look.
00:17
10-4[1].
00:22
Three one.
00:24
1831.
00:27
Can we get a streets and sands for emergency reload to the station?
00:34
Yeah, what kind of car is that?
00:38
It's going to be a blue Kia.
00:45
Ten four. You want to give me that plate so I can put on a ticket?
00:53
Ohio plate,
00:55
(number withheld).
01:01
All right, ten four.
01:04
And it's only the one car that's there, right?
01:11
Ninety nine.
01:17
All right, and the caller that originally called this in says that it happened near Chicago and Rush.
01:22
(name withheld) was in the black Volkswagen Atlas,
01:25
and I guess is still going to the station.
01:29
So there's three cars involved?
01:36
You only have one car there, right? It was the Kia and then the black Volkswagen that (name withheld) is in.
01:42
That called it in.
01:44
Yeah, negative.
01:45
It's a blue Kia K5 and a Chevy Equinox.
01:54
That plate can be (number withheld).
01:57
And I guess that Atlas is involved.
02:04
Okay, then yeah, it's three cars.
02:06
And 18 twenty-one thirty-one.
Police codes explained
The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:
[1]
10-4: Acknowledgment; message received or affirmative (OK).

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Location mentioned:
N Wabash Ave & E Ontario St, Chicago, IL 60611
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