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Nov 4, 2009 11:12 am US/Central

2 Hurt When Car Hits Mansion In Edgewater

Teenage Driver, Passenger Hospitalized

CHICAGO (Sun-Times Media Wire) ― A teenager driving a minivan accidentally struck the corner of an "enormous" 3-story brick home in the affluent Lakewood-Balmoral section of the Edgewater neighborhood Tuesday night, sending herself and a passenger to the hospital.

At 9:11 p.m. the female motorist was eastbound on Balmoral Avenue when she possibly accidentally hit the gas instead of the brake and hit the corner of the large brick home at 5401 N. Wayne Ave., according to Lincoln District police Sgt. Patrick Barker.

Some of the bricks on the facade of the "enormous" home crumbled, but the minivan did not penetrate the structure, according to Barker who said no one was home at the time.

"There's a traffic circle at Glenwood. I think she was trying to navigate around the traffic circle and she overcorrected,'' Barker said.

As of 3 a.m. the Nissan minivan was left on the scene crashed into the home until an inspector for the the city's Department of Buildings can come out. Barker said he did not think the mansion had any structural damage.

The driver and a passenger were not injured but were transported to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center for observation, according to the sergeant.

Alcohol, drugs and speed were not factors in the accident but it was not known immediately whether the driver would be cited.

"It's being treated as an accident,'' Barker said.

Fire officials could not immediately provide information.

(Source: Sun-Times Media Wire © Chicago Sun-Times 2009. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)

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