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Deja Palmer 1 more killed, 4 injured in wrong-way crash on DuSable Lake Shore Drive in Hyde Park, Chicago police say
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Deja Palmer 1 more killed, 4 injured in wrong-way crash on DuSable Lake Shore Drive in Hyde Park, Chicago police say

CHICAGO (WLS) — Two people were killed and four others were injured in a multi-vehicle wrong-way crash on DuSable Lake Shore Drive in Hyde Park.

Chicago police said it happened early Saturday at 3:10 a.m. near 53rd Street.

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A 20-year-old woman was driving a gray sedan with two other passengers northbound in the southbound lane when they struck a white sedan with three people traveling southbound, police said.

The impact caused the white sedan to collide with another southbound white sedan, police said.

The driver of the gray sedan died at the hospital, police said. She was later identified by the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office as Deja Palmer, 20, of Chicago.

A female passenger was transported to Provident Hospital in serious condition.

A man driving the first white sedan is in serious condition at U of C Hospital. His two male passengers are also hospitalized, police said.

The driver of the third vehicle is hospitalized with head and neck injuries, CPD said.

The coroner later declared that one of the injured people died. They did not say which passenger.

Traffic citations are pending, police said.

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