One dead, two injured after I-57 wreck

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Updated: February 6, 2012 8:09AM

One person was killed and two others were injured in an early Sunday crash on Interstate 57 on Chicago’s Southwest Side, authorities said.

The three-vehicle wreck happened about 3:20 a.m. in the northbound lanes of Interstate 57 at West 111th Street, Illinois State Police Master Sgt. Timothy Tippet said.

Initially, the 20-year-old woman driver was taken in serious condition to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, Tippet said.

A 24-year-old woman passenger also was taken to Christ Medical Center, while a 22-year-old man in the vehicle was taken to Roseland Community Hospital.

Authorities said Sunday night that one of the people involved in the crash has died.

All three vehicles were traveling north when one driver tried changing lanes and struck another vehicle carrying three people, Tippet said. That driver then lost control.

All three of the injured were inside one vehicle, Tippet said. The drivers were the only people in the other two vehicles, and they were not hurt.

State Police are investigating.