On February 16, three members of an Illinois family were killed when a 21-year-old driver crashed into their vehicle. Piotr Rog, who was also killed in the accident, may have been traveling in excess of 100 mph before striking the Crawford family’s car, authorities said. The only survivor from the crash was Rog’s passenger, who …
Three men died in a violent wrong-way collision in Naperville, Illinois. The accident occurred around 1 a.m. on December 2 and involved two vehicles. Ali Erhaima, 32, was driving a 2007 Chrysler 300 in the westbound lane of Interstate 88 when a wrong-way driver crashed into him head-on. The driver, of a 2012 Toyota Camry, …
The owner of an Arlington Heights barber shop in Chicago, Illinois, died in a September 18 accident when his motorcycle crashed into a vehicle that was turning ahead of him. The motorcycle rider, 54-year-old Corey Hindes, was driving northbound into an intersection on a green light. A southbound Mercedes tried to turn left in front …
Eight people were injured in a chain-reaction collision involving multiple vehicles on the Tri-State Tollway near Gurnee, Illinois, on the evening of September 19. According to Illinois State Police, a semi-truck crashed into a line of cars stopped in slow-moving traffic on Interstate 94’s far right westbound lane. The accident occurred close to Six Flags …
On the night of Tuesday, September 13th, an 11-year-old girl was struck by an SUV and pressed against a porch in the Chatham neighborhood of Chicago. She was walking into a snack shop in the neighborhood, at 80th and Vincennes, when the accident occurred. She suffered head trauma and could not breathe without assistance. She …
Even after high-profile accidents put truck safety in the national spotlight, the trucking industry has spent millions of dollars lobbying Congress to increase limits on truck size, relax restrictions on driver rest time, and delay rule-making on testing drivers for sleep disorders. Lobbyists and their allies in Congress often use deceptive means to make dangerous …
A federal judge decided that the defendants in a wrongful death lawsuit were too broad in their request to view the Facebook archives of the victim of an accident and her family. The defendants asked for production of the archives covering a time period of seven years prior to her death. U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeffrey …
A woman filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the city of Chicago, Chicago police and a police officer after her son was killed in a car crash. Shawn Garrett, 25, was traveling east on Chicago’s 69th Street on Jan. 10, 2011. According to the lawsuit, a police officer driving south toward the intersection failed to …
In Cook County, Chicago, a man has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against a truck driver and his employer, claiming that the driver was operating his vehicle at an excessive speed when he hit and killed the man’s brother. The victim’s brother, Don Sharpe, filed a wrongful death lawsuit individually and as special administrator of …
Automatic braking, a safety feature with the potential to reduce the number of accidents and save lives, has so far been available only as a pricey option that many consumers choose to forgo. Now, 10 automakers have announced that they will make the feature standard on all their vehicles. Automatic braking technology uses laser, radar …
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