CHICAGO — A car veered off Lake Shore Drive Monday morning, went down an embankment and slammed into a tree before it could plunge into Lake Michigan.
Police said the driver was hospitalized in critical condition in the 8 a.m. crash on northbound Lake Shore Drive near Diversey. He stopped near a part of the Lakefront Trail that’s typically busy, though no one else was hurt.
Witness Jeff Linder said in a tweet that a nurse coming off his night shift was nearly hit by the car — and then pulled over to give aid to the injured driver.
The man was taken to Illinois Masonic Hospital, police said.
Thank you to the nurse from @LoyolaHealth who — returning from a night shift — stopped his car (that was almost hit), came down the embankment, and helped the driver who had what looked to be a bad posterior skull fracture until EMTs arrived. pic.twitter.com/Q0JXy58Wdh
— Jeff Linder (@jeffreylinder) June 10, 2019
