Multiple vehicle crash near 43rd Street and South Prairie Avenue, Chicago IL

Traffic

Reported: 11/17/2025 03:36 AM

S Prairie Ave & E 43rd St, Chicago, IL 60653

Officers responded to a traffic crash involving multiple vehicles near 43rd Street and South Prairie Avenue. One vehicle hit another, and officers checked for possible injuries. They identified additional vehicles with license plates from Illinois and Wisconsin.

Audio|Source: Chicago Police Department Zone 07

02:44

Transcript:

00:00

Another vehicle which hit on 43rd, near South Prairie.

00:06

Ready for a plate?

00:09

Sure am, Lloyd.

00:14

(name withheld).

00:16

(number withheld).

00:20

7-4.

00:23

323. 323.

00:30

Can we get a call for entry?

00:35

Yeah, we can try it.

00:40

Okay.

00:44

All level.

00:46

Can you call back for injury?

00:53

Ten forth, stand by.

01:00

Stay two through, the call is coming out.

01:05

Ten fourth.

01:06

Ten fourth.

01:11

Out of three, the conversation is going to buzz the door and she laughed and the dog's on the first floor.

01:16

Ten four.

01:20

Two,

01:23

four. Show us on plane at the new location and after B buzz again.

01:30

Ten four.

01:39

Thank you for the call of my door.

01:41

Thank you very much.

01:46

2.11.

01:49

11.

01:51

For information,

01:53

victim is refusing the ET, so we're going to collect these shell casings and have been toward them.

02:00

10-4[1].

02:02

Did you plug? 2-2-5.

02:08

2-5.

02:12

Two more vehicles, near some Prairie Avenue, when you're ready for the plate coming out.

02:21

Yeah, you can vote him.

02:27

This place is going to be Illinois,

02:29

(name withheld).

02:30

(number withheld).

02:33

Second place is going to be Wisconsin,

02:35

Adam, Zebra, and Charlie,

02:38

(number withheld).

02:44

So forth.

Police codes explained

The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:

[1]

10-4: Acknowledgment; message received or affirmative (OK).

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S Prairie Ave & E 43rd St, Chicago, IL 60653

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