CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- Chicago police are trying to figure out why a car drove off a Southeast Side bridge and into the Calumet River on Sunday evening.
According to Chicago police sources, a father and his 16-year-old son were in a white car when it went through a barricade and plunged off the middle of a bridge that was going up and into the Calumet River.
The incident happened around 6:50 p.m. Sunday night in the 12400 block of South Torrence Avenue in the Hegewisch neighborhood.
Police said the 39-year-old man driving was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. The Cook County medical examiner’s office identified the man who died as 39-year-old Jaime Navarro, of Calumet City.
The 16-year-old boy was rescued by a passing boat, and police took him to the University of Chicago Medical Center in good condition, police said.
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