3-year-old girl, 3 cops among 5 hurt in Washington Park crash 7%
By Sun-Times Wire7%
8/3/2026, 4:09:28 AM
BS Summary: This article contains 7 faulty reasoning types, including Fundamental Attribution Error, Biased Writer Voice, and Confirmation Bias, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 37.1% saturation with 63 hits. Analysis detected 200 faulty-reasoning hits from 170 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 16.9% and a BS Rank of 7% (25,517 of 27,226 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 93.70% of the article peer group.
Chicago police on their way to a gun call collided with a car, leaving five people hurt including a 3-year-old girl and three Chicago police officers Sunday night in Washington Park on the South Side.
Officers in an unmarked car were responding to a call of a person with a gun around 9:30 p.m. and were going west near the 100 block of East 63rd Street when their vehicle collided with a white car going north, Chicago police said.
A 3-year-old girl inside the car suffered a fractured tibia and was taken to Comer Children’s Hospital, where she was listed in fair condition, police said.
A 41-year-old passenger in the sedan suffered a broken neck and was taken to Stroger Hospital in fair condition, police said.
Car’s driver, a 32-year-old woman who declined medical attention, was cited for speeding and having no insurance.
Three officers suffered “minor” injures and were taken to area hospitals in fair condition, officials said.
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