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Chicago activist Andrew Holmes hit by CTA bus while delivering Easter baskets
By STMW NEWS
CHICAGO - Community activist Andrew Holmes was hurt in a traffic crash Wednesday after a
CTA bus ran a red light in Bronzeville, striking the vehicle he was using to deliver Easter basket supplies. I didn’t even see the bus, as fast as it was flying, Holmes said.
The northbound bus went through a red light about 2:45 p.m. at King Drive at 51st Street and hit a westbound truck, Chicago police said. Holmes, the 61-year-old man driving the truck, called for a ride to a hospital to be treated for a sore left shoulder.
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