I don't know the area myself- never been to Chicago, but in just randomly Googling Kedzie, the Kedzie station appears that it had a fatality earlier when a Korean guy was electrocuted on the third rail. Apparently, it's the only station in the U.S. wth an unprotected, unguarded, and unfenced third rail. I don't know how close that the officer came to the third rail, but it seems as if she did not make contact with it, thankfully. My specialty is crash reconstruction and I can tell you that that Police Interceptor did exactly what it's supposed to do- take all the impact forward of the passenger compartment if possible. Just an educated guess, but I think that this accident is survivable, and I'm hoping that the officer can thank Ford. With the Crown Victoria Police Interceptor, they made one hell of a police cruiser. I'm sorry that they have been discontinued.
~Paul Joyce~
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