Chicago woman flips SUV after gas station rampage

A disheveled looking female driver has almost run over her boyfriend at a gas station before crashing her large black suburban into multiple cars and flipping the vehicle in crime-riddled Chicago.

Kendra Nance, 31, reportedly had a fight with her partner before driving off and leaving a trail of destruction in Forest Park on Sunday.

Forest Park police arrested Nance at about 3.15pm on the same day about a block away from the scene of the crash at a Thornton's gas station. 

Nance was a passenger in the Ford Explorer her boyfriend was driving when the feuding pair pulled into the gas station off of Harlem Avenue in Forest Park.

Kendra Nance, 31, walks away from the vehicle she just flipped over after slamming into several vehicles in her path

Their fight quickly involved other customers at the gas station as Nance reportedly began quarreling with them too. 

Onlookers began recording the scene, which was escalating in tension and a customer threw something at the car Nance was in, according to police.

Nance's boyfriend attempted to stop her from jumping into the driver's side of the car and taking control of the wheel but his efforts were futile.

Footage of the chaotic scene shows Nance's boyfriend trying unsuccessfully to grab the keys from the ignition. 

Nance gained control of the wheel of the vehicle and drove straight into another car parked at the gas station, dragging her boyfriend with her.

After crashing into a car, Nance takes the car back out on the road and immediately slams into a red SUV waiting at a stoplight.

The Ford Explorer then flips over, landing in the middle of the road.

 Nance, who had not been wearing a seatbelt, hops out and continues to scream at people at the gas station.

Nance, clad in a matching pink shorts and tank top set, appeared to have lost one of her shoes in the aftermath of the crash. 

She proceeded to get on her hands and knees next to the wreckage of the vehicle and remove her purse from the totaled car.

Meanwhile, Nance's boyfriend had continued fighting at the gas station, and had become physical with one of the customers there. 

One witness to the unbelievable scene, Jeremy Martin, told a local Chicago ABC affiliate: 'We really didn't expect it...we went there for gas and slushees.'

After Nance flipped her car, Martin said he ran over to the wreckage to see if she was injured.

'I'm thinking she was hurt. Man, she can't be from this planet. She got dead out the car.' 

One of the women who was fighting with the driver of the car looks on at one of the vehicles that was rammed into

'I would look at the behavior of young people as a political act and statement,' said state Senator Robert Peters, who wrote off Saturday night's violent 'Teen Takeover' as a political demonstration

Nance and her boyfriend were subsequently arrested and treated for injuries at Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood. No one else was injured in the crash.

Nance was charged by police with felony criminal damage to property, two counts of aggravated assault, reckless driving, reckless conduct, leaving the scene of a motor vehicle accident, and having no valid driver's license.

She appeared for a bond hearing Tuesday at the Maybrook courthouse, where her bond was set at $200,000. She is due back in court Wednesday for violating probation on a previous case, and again for this case on May 12.

She had three previous felonies - including aggravated battery to a police officer in 2021 and theft and robbery in 2020. She also had three prior misdemeanor charges including several charges of battery in 2017, 2018 and 2021.

The outrageous gas station incident came just hours after a night of chaos in Chicago, when as many as 1,000 teenagers took over the streets of downtown Chicago.

The 'teen takeover' included destroying property like city buses and cars, harassing and hurting a number of innocent victims, and several shootings.

Outgoing Mayor Lori Lightfoot weighed in on the event, telling a local reporter that she thinks calling the weekend scene 'mayhem' is incorrect

Brandon Johnson, 47, said Sunday he does not 'condone the destructive activity' and that it's 'unacceptable and has no place' in Chicago, but that it should not be used as a way to vilify the group

Chicago politicians, many of whom are criticized for being notoriously soft on crime, wrote the night of criminal misdeeds off as anything from a few bad eggs in a sea of revelers, to a political demonstration.

Outgoing Mayor Lori Lightfoot weighed in on the event, telling a local reporter that she thinks calling the weekend scene 'mayhem' is incorrect.

'The  mass majority of the young people who came downtown, came downtown because there was great weather and it was an opportunity to enjoy the city. That's absolutely, entirely appropriate,' said Lightfoot, defending the teens.

She added: 'There are a few that came with different intentions. They have and they will be dealt with. But I'm not going to use your language, which I think is wrong, to say there's "mayhem."'

Brandon Johnson, 47, said Sunday he does not 'condone the destructive activity' and that it's 'unacceptable and has no place' in Chicago, but that it should not be used as a way to vilify the group.

'However, it is not constructive to demonize youth who have otherwise been starved of opportunities in their own communities,' said Johnson, a progressive Democrat.

State senator Robert Peters, who counts parts of Chicago within his constituency, brushed off the ugly scenes in a widely criticized social media post. 

He said: 'Since I’m a glutton for punishment and I’m sure I’m gonna get the most unhinged, crime weirdo replies but: I would look at the behavior of young people as a political act and statement. 

'It’s a mass protest against poverty and segregation.'