Can Children Recover Compensation After a Chicago Car Accident?
Car accidents can be dangerous, and sometimes fatal. If there are children involved, there is a higher likelihood of debilitating injuries. Unfortunately, car crashes are a part of everyday life in Chicago, and there are almost 800 car accidents per day in the state of Illinois. Car crashes cause one out of every four unintentional…
Read MoreAre Single Vehicle Crashes Always the Fault of the Motorcyclist?
Motorcycle accidents are not always the most common on the road, but they are the most likely to result in very severe injury, brain trauma, and death. You are dozens of times more likely to die in a motorcycle accident than in a car crash. At least 25% of motorcycle accidents are between the motorcyclist…
Read MoreFiling a Wrongful Death Lawsuit in Illinois
Death may be inevitable, but it’s never easy. When a loss is the result of another person’s negligence, however, the pain can be even harder to bare. A wrongful death is when one person dies due to another person’s negligence or malice, and has a variety of causes, including vehicle crashes, medical malpractice, boating accidents,…
Read MoreCar Accidents, Uninsured Drivers, and Underinsured Drivers
Car accidents, sadly, happen everywhere – and big cities like Chicago see a lot of them. That’s why we’re all supposed to carry car insurance on our vehicles. Some drivers have less auto insurance than other drivers do, or some people drive without insurance altogether. When you get into a crash with an underinsured or…
Read MoreGreat Dane Improving Rear Impact Guards
Commercial trucks are required to have a number of safety features, but that doesn’t mean that those features can’t fail to do their jobs. Truck crashes and collisions can be really dangerous no matter where they occur, but they’re especially dangerous on the streets of big, busy cities such as Chicago. Whether tractor-trailers are rumbling…
Read MoreTraffic Fatalities Are Increasing Faster Now Than Ever Before
Cars are smarter and safer than ever before, but traffic fatalities are increasing at a rate not seen in more than half a century. Data from the National Safety Council first revealed this disturbing trend last year, when an analysis of 2015 data showed a 7.2% increase in deaths from the previous year. Now, a…
Read MoreUnited Reminds Us Why Planes Are Dangerous, Even When They’re on the Ground
If you were to hear the words “injured on a plane,” would you think the plane had crashed? You wouldn’t be alone: most people assume the worst when they hear about people getting hurt on airplanes. But as that horrific video of Dr. David Dao being physically assaulted on a United flight here in Chicago…
Read MoreBig Truck Collision Leaves Two Injured, One Dead
On April 13, a collision between a garbage truck and a passenger vehicle left two injured and one man dead at the scene. A Republic Services garbage truck attempted to make an illegal left turn when a speeding vehicle driven by Giovanni Roman, 24, struck the passenger side of the truck. Roman was pinned in…
Read MoreImpact of Opioid Abuse on Commercial Truck Driving Crashes
If it is not already intimidating enough to drive alongside an 18-wheeler commercial truck on the highway, just image that the driver of that 90,000-pound vehicle is impaired by drugs? The findings of a study originally published in Occupational and Environmental Medicine on the common use of booze and drugs among truck drivers was described…
Read MoreDistracted Driving Study Reports 1 in 4 Drivers Used Their Phone Just Prior to a Crash
Texting while driving makes it 23 times more likely to be in a crash. About 19% of drivers have admitted to surfing the web while driving, and 77% of teens have heard adults tell them not to text or email while driving yet those same adults can be seen doing those things, “all the time.”…
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