2 seriously injured in South Side pin-in crash

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A car wraps around a viaduct support beam following a South Side crash late Thursday. | Network Video Productions

Two women were seriously injured when a car slammed into a viaduct support beam Thursday night on the border of the Englewood and Gresham neighborhoods on the South Side.

The vehicle hydroplaned and crashed about 9:45 p.m. on Loomis Boulevard south of 74th Street, according to the Chicago Fire Department.

Firefighters had to extricate the 19-year-old woman at the wheel, who suffered leg and hip injuries, fire officials said. The 20-year-old woman in the passenger seat had a rib injury.

Both were taken in serious condition to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, fire officials said.

Chicago Police did not immediately have information about the crash.

Firefighters work to free a woman from a car that crashed under a South Side viaduct Thursday night. | Network Video Productions

Firefighters work to free a woman from a car that crashed under a South Side viaduct Thursday night. | Network Video Productions

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