SUV smashes into front entrance of Streeterville hospital

An SUV sits in a Streeterville hospital lobby after a valet accidentally accelerated instead of braking early Wednesday. | Network Video Productions

 

(CHICAGO) An SUV smashed through the front entrance of Northwestern Medicine’s Prentice Women’s Hospital in Streeterville early Wednesday.

About 2:45 a.m., a valet accidentally accelerated instead of braking the vehicle and crashed into the doorway of the hospital at 250 E. Superior, police News Affairs Officer Hector Alfaro said.

The accident caused minor property damage and no one was hurt, Alfaro said.

No citations were expected to be issued.

   

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