Police, fire, rescue

Man seriously

injured in car crash

BLOOMINGTON — A man suffered possibly life-threatening injuries after he was struck by a car while walking along Veterans Parkway on Friday night.

The crash occurred about 9:20 p.m. on or along northbound Veterans Parkway near the Eastland Drive intersection, and police closed the northbound lanes at that intersection following the crash, said Bloomington Police Lt. Pete Avery.

Someone performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation on the man before rescue workers arrived.

Further details weren’t immediately available.

Hit by car — A 17-year-old girl was hit by a car after walking down the center of Raab Road, stopping and “showing off” for construction workers and then stepping into the path of a car Thursday afternoon, Normal police said.

The girl was taken to BroMenn Regional Medical Center following the accident about 3:20 p.m. just west of School Street. Information on her condition was not available Thursday.

A police report says she was dancing in the street. She turned to run to a sidewalk on the south side of the road and was struck by an eastbound passenger car, the report said.

She was cited with failing to yield.

Bridge closed — The Division Street railroad underpass remained closed Friday afternoon, the day after it was hit by a truck.

The city closed the section of Division Street following a crash about 4 p.m. Thursday on the Lee Street side of the bridge. There were no injuries in the crash, police said.

Tumurdaatar Turbat, 27, of North Lake, was driving a westbound car carrier with three vehicles atop the trailer. A Chevrolet Silverado on the carrier struck the bottom of the overpass, damaging the truck and knocking a Dodge Intrepid off the back of the vehicle, police said.

Bloomington Lt. Pete Avery said the driver was cited with exceeding the load height limit, failing to reduce speed to avoid an accident and failing to report a change of address to the secretary of state.

Prowler — A woman told police she saw light shine through a window and heard what sounded like someone trying to open the screen on the window in front of her house Thursday night.

The woman said she called out “hello” and heard someone run away from the window about 10:15 p.m. in the 100 block of Meadow Ridge Drive, police said.

Rollover crash — One person was injured in a single-vehicle rollover crash Friday evening near Towanda, police said.

The person was taken to OSF St. Joseph Medical Center, police said, but further details weren’t immediately available in the crash about 5:30 p.m. on southbound Interstate 55 at the Towanda exit.

Car-bike crash — One person was treated at a Normal hospital after a crash between a car and a bicyclist just outside a Bloomington hospital Thursday afternoon.

A caller told police the bicyclist was standing up shortly after the crash about 3:40 p.m. at the intersection of Washington Street and St. Joseph Drive, the entrance to OSF St. Joseph Medical Center, said Bloomington Police Lt. Pete Avery.

He said one person went to BroMenn Regional Medical Center and the other was issued a citation, but further details weren’t immediately available, police said.

Burglary — Someone stole items ranging from a handgun to a projection TV sometime Thursday at a home in Normal, police said.

The gun, ammunition, jewelry, a video game system, a laptop computer, a desktop computer, the TV, a DVD theater system, about 180 CDs and about 400 DVDs were taken between 7 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. at a home in the 300 block of Carriage Hills Road, according to a police report.

There were signs someone forced open a garage door, police said.

In court

Bloomington man charged in stabbing

BLOOMINGTON — A Bloomington man was in court Friday on a charge he stabbed another man in the back with a knife or a similar weapon early Thursday.

Style D. Gray, 23, of the 300 block of North McLean Street, was released on a personal recognizance bond on a charge of aggravated battery. He is accused of attacking Robert Poore, 20, of the 900 block of West Front Street.

Poore was taken to BroMenn Regional Medical Center following an attack.

Poore told police he didn’t see the person who attacked him about 12:45 a.m. Thursday in the 500 block of East Monroe Street, police said.

Information on his condition was not available from the hospital.

Robbery — A 45-year-old man was in jail Friday on a charge saying he robbed a Bloomington convenience store at gunpoint in March 2006.

Nathaniel Carter, of Chicago, was jailed in lieu of paying $2,500 on a charge of aggravated robbery. Police said Carter was arrested in connection with a robbery about 2:05 a.m. March 27, 2006, at Huck’s Martin & Bailey Inc., 102 W. Oakland Ave.

Bloomington police spokesman David White said Carter turned himself in to Chicago authorities and admitted to the robbery.

Police, fire, rescue

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