Two people arrested and weapon recovered after multi-vehicle accident in Palatinate

PALATINE, Ill. – At least two people were taken into police custody and a gun was recovered after a multi-vehicle crash that closed a major artery in northwest suburban Palatine Thursday morning.

According to witnesses, officers pursued a vehicle that then crashed into several cars at North Rand Road and North Winslowe Drive shortly before 11 a.m

“Basically we heard the police, so a lot of police sirens and a lot of people coming outside,” said Eryk Bosak of Tinting Chicago at 1402 N. Rand Rd. “I saw smoke and I was like, ‘What happened here? ‘“

Surveillance video captured by his company showed a black Honda CR-V swerving to avoid a vehicle and rear-end a gold GMC Tahoe, which then hit two cars in front of it. The video shows a man getting out of the CR-V, running across the Bosak parking lot and into the neighboring R&M Performance Auto Care store.

Seconds after the accident, a police vehicle appears with its lights on.

“I was working on the car and then somehow I saw him in the middle of the parking lot, running in here, and then he just flew right past the car into the back room. Then he came right back here,” employee Rei Nati told WGN. “I kind of just didn’t want to have anything to do with it because I’m sure people would try to attack him or something and I’m like, uh, it’s not really worth your life.”

Nati said he ran outside to alert police that the man from the vehicle was inside. He said six officers went in and removed the suspect in handcuffs. The driver of the Honda CR-V was loaded into an ambulance and also taken into custody. Nati said officers spent “an hour or two” looking for possible weapons.

Video from WGN’s SkyCam 9 showed an officer placing what appeared to be an extended magazine and a handgun removed from the CR-V into a white evidence box.

In an evening statement, police said four adults were taken to area hospitals with non-life-threatening injuries: a 20-year-old man and a 22-year-old man from the Honda CR-V, and a 53-year-old man. old woman and 59 year old woman who were in the GMC Tahoe.

North Rand Road between East Dundee Road and Winslowe Drive was closed for about 90 minutes due to the accident. Nearby Palatine High School was briefly placed under a soft lockdown during police operations.