RIP Agustin Gomez, 48, Melrose Park

Wednesday Journal (Bill Dwyer):

A high-speed single car crash in the 1150 block of South Cuyler Avenue claimed the life of a Melrose Park man Saturday night. Agustin Gomez, 48, was killed after the vehicle 17 year old Eric Gomez was driving left the roadway around 9:15 p.m., struck a street light pole, two houses and a tree before flipping over on the parkway at Cuyler and Fillmore.

PO-PO, ambulance with sirens in collision [NR]

Chicago Tribune (Jeremy Gorner):

[A] collision occurred around 8:45 a.m. at 26th Street and Westover Avenue in the near west suburb [of North Riverside] while the Stickney Fire Department ambulance, with its lights flashing, was transporting the patient to Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, said North Riverside Police Sgt. Kerry Vuolo.

The ambulance personnel claim a woman in her 40s ran a red light.

I'm skeptical of the claim she ran a red light. I expect she had the light and was being inattentive about the emergency vehicle. The ambulance crew avoids any blame if she ran a red light and ignored the sirens.