Lamborghini Collides With CPD Vehicle On Near North Side

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CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- A police officer was sent to a hospital after a Lamborghini crashed into his squad car Saturday on the Near North Side.

About 3:56 a.m., the officer was traveling east in a marked vehicle in the 400 block of North Michigan Avenue when the southbound Lamborghini flew through a red light and hit the driver’s side of the police car, Chicago police said.

Police were seen talking to a man in the back of a police vehicle as officers investigated. They took the handcuffed man out of the vehicle and released him.

The driver of the Lamborghini was issued two citations, police said.

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