CHICAGO (WLS) — Police are searching for the driver that struck a family of four and a 13-year-old on his bike on the city’s North Side, Chicago police said.
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New surveillance video shows as light blue Volkswagen Passat speeds down an alley in Rogers Park near Jonquil Terrace and Marshfield.
“At least 70 miles an hour. It was going too fast. It was going too fast, extremely fast and like it said the vehicle that was hit didn’t even see it coming,” Brian Iverson, who witnessed the crash said.
The video is shocking to watch, however everyone was released from the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
The Volkswagen exits the alley onto Jonquil Terrace, and slammed into a van with a family a four inside.
Whoever done this, I wish y’all would just turn yourself in
“They were coherent and they were very thankful that people were able to kick the front window out to get the kids out. The main focus was the kids,” Iverson said.
The parents are in their 40’s and the kids are ages 7 and 10, according to police.
The video shows a boy on a bike riding down the sidewalk who was also hit by the Volkswagen before it barreled into a metal fence.
The 13-year-old boy was able to run away with minor injuries, meanwhile the driver of the crashed car bailed out of the passenger side door and took off going east on Jonquil Terrace.
“I saw the little boy that got hit but I thought he was ok because he jumped right up and he ran,” Iverson said. “He was scared. He was trying to get to his mother. Then he got about a block away and he just sat down.”
All of this unfolded just after 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday. Sources tell ABC7 Chicago police were trying to make a traffic stop on the Volkswagen.
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The video shows no evidence of a chase, instead one surveillance clip shows the Volkswagen wait for police to pass before it speeds down the alley.
Witnesses said the crash was so loud it could be heard for blocks.
No one is currently in custody. An investigation by CPD Area Three detectives is ongoing.
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