Suspected carjacker dead, two women hurt when car crashes into CTA support beam in Loop

Chicago police work the scene of a single-vehicle crash in the Loop on Wednesday evening. Police say a dark-colored SUV crashed into a support column of the CTA ‘L’ on East Lake Street after a male and female entered the vehicle in a carjacking attempt. (Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times)

A suspected carjacker was killed and two women were injured when the driver of the car crashed into the support column of a CTA elevated train line in the Loop Wednesday, police said.

The driver was in her car in the 100 block of East Lake Street when a man and woman got in about 5:40 p.m., police said. There was a struggle and the car hit the support beam.