Illinois State Police reported that the vehicle was traveling too fast for road conditions along the stretch of I-55, known as the Stevenson Expressway, at the time of the accident, which occurred at about 4 a.m.

12 when two people were killed, and two others injured when the vehicle in which they were riding collided with a concrete wall and plunged more than 40 feet off Interstate 55 in Chicago and crashed onto a street in a neighborhood on the city’s southwest side. The truck swerved into a retaining wall, briefly traveled up a snowbank and crashed to the ground below the bridge. The scary incident conjured up memories of a similar accident in December 2016 that ended in tragedy.Ĭhristopher Weber, 27, of Milwaukee, lost control of the truck he was driving on an ice-covered stretch of the Hoan Bridge along the I-794 overpass. In an interview with Good Morning America, Oliver said from a hospital bed that he lost control of his truck when it encountered snow that had been piled up along the side of the road. The truck motored up a snowbank, jumped over a barrier wall and plummeted to the freeway below. A preliminary investigation of the earlier accident by the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Department revealed that the pick-up truck driven by Richard Lee Oliver was traveling on the ramp from westbound I-94 to southbound Interstate 41 when Oliver lost control of the vehicle.

Truck flies off overpass