The Cook County medical examiner’s office has not released his identity. Image: Google MapsĪccording to police, on Sunday, October 23, at about 11:15 a.m., a 32-year-old man was driving north on King at 79th when he struck the bus shelter at the northeast corner of the intersection. The 57-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene. On September 12, a hit-and-run SUV driver fatally struck Eric Ray, 59, at this intersection.Īnd this was at least the fourth case of people being critically injured or killed by a driver at a Chicago bus stop this year. This was the second pedestrian fatality at 79th/King in two months. And on Sunday morning a reckless driver struck a 57-year-old man at a bus stop at 79th Street and King Drive in Chatham and injured three other people. Early Saturday morning an allegedly drunk driver struck and killed Luis Martinez Ortiz, 54, as he crossed 51st Street at Sawyer Avenue in Gage Park. Tragically, there were two pedestrian fatalities in Chicago last weekend.
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