Driver injured after car crashes from edge of shopping center parking lot

A driver was taken to hospital after crashing through a parking garage guardrail and landing his car upside down on the street below, police said.

The incident occurred Monday at the Harlem Irving Plaza Mall in Norridge, Illinois – about 15 miles northwest of downtown Chicago – when officers from the Norridge Police Department and the Norwood Park Fire Protection District were dispatched to the 4000 block of Octavia. to reports of an overturned vehicle with the driver trapped inside, according to a statement from Norridge police.

In a photo shared by authorities on social media, emergency vehicles are seen surrounding the upside-down vehicle with several emergency workers on their hands and knees near the driver’s side of the car, while the parking garage’s guardrail has been torn from the side. the building, which flows into the street below.

It is currently unclear what may have caused the incident and the driver has not yet been identified by authorities.

“Norwood Park Fire extricated the driver and took him to Lutheran General Hospital for non-life-threatening injuries,” police said.

The driver is expected to survive and the investigation into the crash is ongoing.