According to the Evanston Police Department, a cyclist was injured Friday afternoon in a traffic crash with a car on Sheridan Road.
The collision occurred at 4:40 p.m. on the street’s intersection with Keeney Street and Sheridan Square. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), EPD stated that the cyclist was “alert and conscious” when taken to a nearby hospital, and that the car’s driver remained on the scene.
Traffic was closed in all directions for about an hour while first responders cleared the scene, then reopened at 5:42 p.m. EPD Cmdr.
Ryan Glew told the RoundTable that the car’s driver “did not appear to be impaired” and that the department has yet to decide whether to issue citations pending further investigation.
The city designates Sheridan Road between South Boulevard and Main Street as a bike route, but there is no bike lane separate from vehicle traffic.
Further west, a protected bike lane along Chicago Avenue between Howard and Davis Streets is planned for construction in the coming years as part of a larger corridor improvement project that received $3 million in state grant funding last month.
