At least two cars plowed into a motorist who fell out of a Jeep Wrangler onto the busy Dan Ryan Expressway and died early Friday.
At 5:11 a.m., Illinois State Police troopers were called to the outbound local lanes of the Ryan at 28th Street for a report of a “pedestrian lying in the roadway,” according to ISP Trooper Jayme Bufford.
For unknown reasons, the driver of a Jeep Wrangler “fell out of the vehicle and became a pedestrian on the roadway,” Bufford said in a statement.
Two vehicles slammed into the pedestrian and fled the scene as the driverless Jeep veered off the highway and hit a concrete median barrier.
The pedestrian was dead on the scene, according to Bufford.
The situation caused the closure of local lanes at 31st but they were reopened at about noon.
No further information was given.
