Two men are in custody and charged after a crash in Markham that left an Illinois State trooper injured Friday, Illinois State Police said.
Harvey residents William Oiler, 44, and Herbert Needom, 57, have both been charged with a count of felony theft, according to state police.
Oiler was also charged with three counts of fleeing to elude law enforcement causing great bodily harm, damage to property over $300 and one count of leaving the scene of a personal injury accident. Needom was also charged with one count of possession of burglary tools.
Oiler and Needom were being sought in a theft case, and Country Club Hills police were attempting to make a traffic stop Friday. They refused to stop and drove the wrong way onto Interstate 57, police said. At 1:05 p.m., an Illinois State trooper was entering I-57 southbound near 159th Street in Markham when Oiler and Needom’s car hit the officer’s vehicle head-on. They fled the scene.
Markham police later arrested the two, and they were taken to nearby hospitals to be treated for injuries sustained in the crash, state police said. The state trooper was also taken to a nearby hospital with “non-life threatening injuries.”
The two are being held awaiting a detention hearing.
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