Crime & Safety
Blotter: Two Vehicles Hit This Morning on Icy Ogden Avenue Bridge
The following item is from Patch's reporting of the La Grange police blotter.
Two vehicles were hit at about 5 a.m. Dec. 29 on the Ogden Avenue bridge, which police described as icy, due to freezing rain.
Someone called police at about 4:49 a.m. to tell police the bridge was solid ice. La Grange Public Works was called to treat the surface and responded.
Meanwhile, an accident with no injuries was reported at about 4:51 a.m. at the base of the bridge, at Washington and Ogden avenue, and another hit-and-run crash was reported 10 minutes later at the same location.
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Police put up barricades to stop traffic but said several vehicles went around them at about 5:19 a.m. An officer stopped them at the bottom of the bridge, but the report did not indicate whether they were ticketed.
Phone Lost, Not Stolen
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A mother told police Dec. 28 that her daughter’s cell phone was stolen the previous day when she went to get pop at a restaurant on the 0-100 block of south LaGrange Road. The girl’s boyfriend told an officer that she had lost the phone in Brookfield and had been afraid to tell her mother the truth. The officer told the mother and daughter about the consequences of filing a false police report. The mother said she will handle the daughter’s punishment at home.
Boy’s ID Used Fraudulently
Countryside police reported Dec. 28 that a La Grange boy’s identification was used by someone trying to buy alcohol at a business in their city.
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