Crash causes car to jump curb, hit and kill 38-year-old man walking on sidewalk near Midway

CHICAGO — A crash caused a car to jump the curb and hit a 38-year-old man, killing him, while he was walking on a sidewalk late Monday night near Midway International Airport.

Chicago police say three cars were involved in the crash, which happened around 11:15 p.m. in the 5200 block of West 63rd Street, in the Clearing neighborhood on the city’s Southwest Side. Witnesses say two of the three cars were speeding down the street when the crash started.

According to police, a preliminary investigation showed that a white Infiniti sedan was going west on W. 63rd St. when it sideswiped a black Infiniti sedan that was also going west. After those vehicles made contact, one then hit a white Nissan sedan that was going in the same direction.

It was the white Infiniti, police say, that subsequently jumped the curb and hit the 38-year-old male pedestrian, who was taken to an area hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Meanwhile, police say the white Infiniti finally came to a stop when it crashed into an airport hangar. The man driving the Infiniti was taken to an area hospital in fair condition, while an adult female passenger in the car was taken to an area hospital with unknown injuries. Her condition was also not known, police say.

The other three people involved in the crash — a man driving the black Infiniti, a female passenger in that car, and a man driving the white Nissan — were all uninjured, according to police.

West 63rd St. was closed in both directions after being shut down for several hours after the crash, but it has since reopened.

Police say citations are pending and Area One detectives are investigating the crash.