Posts tagged accident

• Pedestrians and Right-Turn-On-Red: What's The Real Risk?

  Brian Perkins | January 21, 2012 12:37 PM | 0 CommentsWindy City, IL Category: Wrongful Death
  

  It's one of those things that most drivers are guilty of sometime or another: rolling through a right turn when the traffic signal is red. Rarely does this infraction result in an acident,...

• Truckers and Fatigue Have Fatal Consequences

  Craig Brown | January 21, 2012 10:49 AM | 9 CommentsWindy City, IL Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  Mistakes made by truck drivers are the cause of a certain percentage of trucking accidents. These accidents, more the exception than the rule, are most often caused by truck drivers who are in...

• Taxi cab companies now playing the corporate shell game

  Barry Doyle | May 31, 2010 10:41 AM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  The Chicago Sun Times ran an article in today's newspaper entitled, Badly Injured in cab crash? Good luck collecting much. The article described how Chicago taxi cab companies are structuring their...

• Ice on Semi-trailers a Hazard to Public

  Barry Doyle | January 13, 2010 8:19 AM | 5 CommentsCook County, IL Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  Imagine you are traveling down the interstate, perhaps making your daily drive to work or taking a longer journey to visit family. Ahead of you is a semi-truck. As the truck approaches the...

• Rockord Canadian National train derailment kills one, injures three

  Barry Doyle | June 20, 2009 11:56 AM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Yesterday, in Rockford, a Canadian National train derailed. The freight train had several tank cars which were carrying ethanol, a highly flammable and highly explosive substance. When the Canadian...

• Hit-and-Run Driver Seriously Injures Bicyclist

  Kristina Labanauskas | September 18, 2008 4:32 PM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A hit-and-run driver stuck a bicyclist Wednesday afternoon while she was riding on the shoulder of Huntley Road in West Dundee, Illinois. The Carpentersville woman was seriously injured and was...

• City of Chicago to Increase Bike Safety through Enforcement of Bike Laws

  Kristina Labanauskas | August 27, 2008 4:31 PM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  More and more people are getting out on their bikes these days in an effort to save the environment and to save money. The City is support of the increase in bicyclists. Along with this increase...

• Walk Much? Chicago’s Most Dangerous Intersections for Pedestrians Revealed

  Nick Avgerinos | August 18, 2008 10:33 AM | 0 CommentsChicago-Land, IL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  If you live and/or work in the city, chances are you’re doing a lot of walking. And with the price of gas nowadays, you’re probably doing extra walking. If so, you can probably relate to CBS’s...

• Nerves of Steel: Steelworkers Brave Steep Safety Stats

  Nick Avgerinos | August 15, 2008 9:02 AM | 0 CommentsChicago-Land, IL Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  July was construction safety month, providing much-needed safety information for an industry with a consistently high accident rate, resulting in both injuries and deaths. But plenty of dangers...

• Hard to Call Slip-and-Fall: Workers’ Compensation for Working from Home?

  Nick Avgerinos | August 13, 2008 9:35 AM | 2 CommentsRockford & Moline, IL Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  Everyone’s talking about the struggle to fuel our nation: where to find the cheapest gas, techniques for getting the most out of your gas, what car to drive for the best mileage, etc. But some...