The crash report states that the driver repeatedly told officers he stopped, but did not answer other questions.

The van driver, who lives half a mile from the crash location, was cited for failure to exercise due care to a pedestrian in the road and driving an uninsured vehicle, with a court date of May 22. An autopsy found the cause of death was craniocerebral injuries with hypertensive cardiovascular disease as a contributing factor. A police officer who later’s checked on Li’s status was told by a doctor that the senior was in stable condition.Īccording to the Cook County medical examiner’s officer, Li later died from his injuries. Li, who lived about a mile southeast of the crash site, was taken to Stroger Hospital by a Chicago Fire Department ambulance, according to the crash report. The report indicates that neither the van driver nor Li spoke much English.

The witness told officers Li was breathing but not answering her questions. The van driver then “slowly struck” the pedestrian, “at which point he fell to the ground.” Diagram of the collision from the crash report. The witness said as she was waiting for the van driver to complete his turn, she saw Li in the crosswalk.

The van driver then made a northbound left turn onto Wentworth. She said that the eastbound driver of a Ford van, a 64-year-old man, was stopped at the stop sign on the other side of Wentworth. she was driving west on 24th Street and stopped at at stop at Wentworth Avenue. Tragically, a very similar act of negligence by a van driver took the life of fellow senior Guo Ning Li, 78, earlier this month in Chinatown.Īccording to the crash report, a witness told responding officers on Sunday, March 19, at 11:30 a.m. On February 20, 2023, a right-turning FedEx van driver ran over and killed Marsha Frankel, 72, as she crossed Wabash Avenue at Roosevelt Road in the South Loop in a crosswalk.

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