Party bus sideswipes 13 cars in Lakeview, CPD says; driver arrested

CHICAGO (WLS) — Police have arrested a 45-year-old occasion bus driver after he broken 13 automobiles in Chicago’s Lakeview neighborhood Saturday afternoon.

Cellphone video reveals the moments when simply earlier than 3 p.m. when the driving force the occasion bus pressured his method via oncoming visitors on Broadway close to Addison, then lower throughout to the southbound lane, showing to deliberately sideswipe the automobiles parked alongside the road.

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Johnna Watson was in disbelief as she watched her blue Jeep get totaled.

“We have been perhaps 5 toes away from the automotive when he got here barreling down the road, knocked the mirror off of my automotive and bumped into this automotive proper right here, totaled this one,” Watson mentioned. “Then he hit that one so dangerous he form of rolled again after which he hit the fuel and that is when he smashed the entire driver’s facet of my automotive.”

Watson and her boyfriend have been planning to attend the close by Market Days pageant earlier than the incident occurred. Robin Delgado and his household have been getting back from the pageant solely to seek out their automobile broken as properly.

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“It is fairly upsetting,” Delgado mentioned. “That is our first Market Days that we’re bringing kids to and to listen to the music and to return upon that is fairly surprising.”

The occasion bus was finally curbed close to DuSable Lake Shore Drive and Recreation Drive, in keeping with Chicago police. It is not instantly clear whether or not there was anybody else contained in the bus aside from the driving force, however police have mentioned nobody was injured.

The motive force’s motivations are usually not identified and costs are pending. The motive force’s identify has not been launched by police.

The proprietor of the occasion bus Black Label Limos, launched an announcement Sunday saying, “We the house owners of Black Label Limos, want to make an announcement in regard to the state of affairs that occurred with certainly one of our Social gathering Buses in Chicago yesterday. We need to say in the beginning we’re extremely grateful that no person was injured on this horrific accident. We’re simply as anticipating any info concerning this case, nonetheless sadly the Chicago PD has not launched any extra info to us, the house owners, than what the media has. We’re studying all of our info from the media sources. Right now we have now not been in a position to keep up a correspondence with the driving force concerning the occasions that occurred yesterday. Initially the Chicago PD couldn’t inform us if the driving force of the bus had been injured, detained, or in custody. We lastly discovered of him being in custody via the media. Late yesterday night on one of many quite a few telephones calls made to the Chicago PD they lastly knowledgeable us that the driving force was not impaired nonetheless, they didn’t specify or elaborate how they made that willpower. Sadly, right now we have now no additional info.”