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Police report injury accident at 183rd Street intersection

Homewood police reported another car accident Thursday at the intersection of 183rd Street and Center Avenue, just  two weeks after an accident there took the life of a young driver.

Police said the call of an accident came in at approximately 2:06 p.m. When officers and fire department personnel arrived on the scene, they found a white Chevy on the north side of the 1200 block of 183rd Street, and a black Nissan against a tree on the northwest corner of the intersection of 183rd Street and Center Avenue. Witnesses said the Nissan caught fire.

A black NIssan involved in a crash at 183rd Street and Center Avenue on Thursday came to rest against a tree. (Quincy Crump/H-F Chronicle)

Homewood police reported another car accident Thursday at the intersection of 183rd Street and Center Avenue, just  two weeks after an accident there took the life of a young driver.

Police said the call of an accident came in at approximately 2:06 p.m. When officers and fire department personnel arrived on the scene, they found a white Chevy on the north side of the 1200 block of 183rd Street, and a black Nissan against a tree on the northwest corner of the intersection of 183rd Street and Center Avenue. Witnesses said the Nissan caught fire.

Police cited both drivers. The driver of the Chevy was traveling eastbound on 183rd Street and was turning left onto Center. The driver was given a citation for failure to yield. The driver of the Nissan was traveling westbound on 183rd Street. Police issued that driver a citation for failure to reduce speed to avoid a crash. 

Police said the driver of the Chevy was transported to a hospital for treatment. The other driver refused treatment.

Police are asking anyone who witnessed the traffic crash to contact the Homewood Police Department at 708-206-3420.

A white Chevrolet is towed from the scene of a two-vehicle crash at the intersection of 183rd Street and Center Avenue on Thursday afternoon. (Marilyn Thomas/H-F Chronicle)

Laura Urbanski, who lives next door to the site of the deadly accident on July 22, said she can sit in her front yard and monitor how fast cars speed down 183rd Street by watching the speed monitoring sign installed on a pole just east of her house. The sign is meant to remind drivers of their speed as they travel down 183rd Street where the limit is 30 miles per hour.

“That sign hasn’t done a bit of good,” she said. “I’ve seen it register as high as 65.”

Urbanski didn’t witness Thursday’s accident, but as soon as she heard the crash she called police. 

“When I call, they all know me already,” she said of the emergency operators.

Her neighbor across the street, Tom Konieczny, said he’s lived in his house in the 1200 block of 183rd Street for more than 30 years. He didn’t witness the accident, but came out to find one of the two cars in the front lawn two doors east of his house, quite a distance from the intersection.

The neighbors remembered when a bus hit a utility pole and flipped over. That was about 20 years ago. There weren’t many accidents until the last few years, they said.

“You don’t have to have a speed gun” to know drivers are speeding, Konieczny said.

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