Crash on Greenwood Road

Gus Philpott
Woodstock Advocate
July 21, 2010

About 4:00PM there was a major crash on Greenwood Road, north of Route 120. The crash occurred near Thoroughbred Estates, between Saddlebred Trail and Arabian Trail.

Deputies had northbound Greenwood Road shut off at Route 120 and again at Saddlebred Trail, and a deputy was blocking southbound Greenwood Road at Arabian Trail, routing traffic through Thoroughbred Estates around the accident scene.

I was told that numerous ambulances and other emergency responders were on the scene. A number of deputies may have been responding to a reported multi-vehicle accident, when this second crash occurred. It appears that one McHenry County Sheriff's Department squad car and two other vehicles were involved, and the squad car came to rest against a tree. Damage to vehicles would indicate very serious injuries to some of the occupants. Expect to find details in the Northwest Herald in the morning or online sooner.

The accident scene was about 200-300 yards south of Arabian Trail. There are no other street intersections there, but there are driveways to properties on the east side of Greenwood Road. That section of roadway is in Bull Valley jurisdiction, and the Illinois State Police may have been called to handle the accident investigation.

Neither daily paper is reporting this crash on its online editions at this time.