CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) - No one was seriously hurt after a car drove through a daycare center on the South Side Friday morning.
“I’m just very thankful that none of my kids was hurt. We have 116 kids here,” said Raekwon Neighbors, owner of Raekwon’s Scholastic Academy in the 200 block of West 79th Street in the West Chatham neighborhood.
He said that, about 8:15 a.m., a parent, dropping off his three-year-old daughter, must have hit the gas pedal instead of the brakes and drove into a room where there were about 10 children.
“At nine o’clock, nine-thirty, it would have been kids sitting on the rug exactly where the car drove over,” Neighbors said.
Neighbors was not at the center at the time and said that, when he got the call, he was devastated.
He said there were 50 to 60 children at the center when the crash happened.
The Fire Department said the man who was driving the car and the three-year-old girl in the car were taken to hospitals. The girl was taken in good condition to Comer Children’s Hospital.
The father was taken to a hospital in fair condition.
Neighbors said one of his teachers was cut by flying glass. She was taken to a hospital, too.
The daycare center closed for the day, with plans to re-open on Monday. He said another part of the daycare center has been cleared to be open for Monday. He’s hoping the portion where the car crashed into the center can be fixed and re-opened by Tuesday or Wednesday.
Neighbors plans to install barriers to prevent anything like that from happening again.
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