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Police are investigating an incident involving a 66-year-old volunteer who collided into four people while driving a golf cart last week during the Taste of Westmont festival.
Police said the four people were stuck by the cart, including two children, at about 7:55 p.m. Friday, July 9, at 266 N. Cass Ave., where the festival was taking place.
Two people, a 5-year-old from Romeoville and a 48-year-old Westmont woman, were sent to Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital in Downers Grove. The two were treated and released later that evening, Westmont Police Chief Tom Mulhearn said.
According to Mulhearn, the 66-year-old Westmont man, a volunteer with the Westmont Special Events Corp., the group that was organizing the Taste of Westmont, was driving the golf cart in reverse. The cart then struck a portable toilet where the 48-year-old woman was, and three others, including the 5-year-old, a 33-year-old woman and her 4-year-old daughter, both from Berwyn. The toilet did not fall over, but the woman inside suffered minor injures, Mulhearn said.
Police have not released the names of the driver or any of the victims.
Mulhearn said the accident is under investigation, but alcohol does not appear to have played a role in the collision. No charges have been filed in the case.
Police are investigating an incident involving a 66-year-old volunteer who collided into four people while driving a golf cart last week during the Taste of Westmont festival.
Police said the four people were stuck by the cart, including two children, at about 7:55 p.m. Friday, July 9, at 266 N. Cass Ave., where the festival was taking place.
Two people, a 5-year-old from Romeoville and a 48-year-old Westmont woman, were sent to Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital in Downers Grove. The two were treated and released later that evening, Westmont Police Chief Tom Mulhearn said.
According to Mulhearn, the 66-year-old Westmont man, a volunteer with the Westmont Special Events Corp., the group that was organizing the Taste of Westmont, was driving the golf cart in reverse. The cart then struck a portable toilet where the 48-year-old woman was, and three others, including the 5-year-old, a 33-year-old woman and her 4-year-old daughter, both from Berwyn. The toilet did not fall over, but the woman inside suffered minor injures, Mulhearn said.
Police have not released the names of the driver or any of the victims.
Mulhearn said the accident is under investigation, but alcohol does not appear to have played a role in the collision. No charges have been filed in the case.
