No injuries when Yellow Line collides with car in Skokie

A Yellow Line train struck a car in downtown Skokie on Tuesday afternoon that had ignored railroad crossing signals and driven onto the tracks, a spokesperson for the Village of Skokie said. 

No one was reported injured, officials said.

Skokie emergency personnel responded to a collision involving a Chicago Transit Authority train on the Yellow Line track in the 8400 block of Niles Center Road around 12:58 p.m. on Tuesday, July 14, said Patrick Deignan, Skokie’s director of communications, in an email.

On scene, police determined that a car traveling northeast on Niles Center Road “disregarded the properly functioning lowered railroad crossing gates and activated warning signals, entered the railroad tracks, and was struck by a southeastbound train,” Deignan wrote. 

The operator of the train reportedly was transported to a local hospital for evaluation, but no injuries to the train passengers or the driver of the vehicle were reported.

A spokesperson for the CTA confirmed via email that Yellow Line service paused after the incident involving a “non-CTA vehicle improperly entering the tracks at a grade crossing”.

The CTA spokesperson also stated there are no reports of any CTA passenger injuries.

Normal service on the Yellow Line appeared to have been restored as of 3:30 p.m. The collision apparently took place between the Dempster Station and Oakton-Skokie Station stops. 

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