Illinois updates in category: Wrongful Death

Karl Reed, a construction worker, was working on Monday afternoon when he was killed. Reed who was 49 years old, was killed by falling concrete. It appears that a piece of concrete became disconnected from the crane cable causing the concrete to fall and hit Reed.Plainfield police are currently investigating the accident to determine what caused the concrete to fall and kill Reed. If it was a...

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As posted yesterday, Hal Pulfer of Highland Park, Illinois, died while on vacation with his family in Maui, Hawaii. Pulfer was enjoying a whale watching trip aboard a catamaran owned by the Hyatt Regency, when the mast of the boat broke and the boat sank. The investigation is ongoing into the death of Pulfer but it is now being reported that Pulfer suffered from a blunt trauma to the head,...

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Tuesday evening a man traveling in Des Plaines, Illinois was killed when his Jeep collided with a semi-truck. The man, 26 year old Arsen Harutyunyan was driving his Jeep on River Road when the crash occurred. The Des Plaines police are currently investigating the accident.At this time there is no report as to who was at fault or who was driving the truck. If the truck driver is at fault for...

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Hal Pulfer was only 48 when he died during a sailing trip he was enjoying in Maui, Hawaii on Sunday. Pulfer was aboard a 55 foot catamaran with over 50 other tourists. The catamaran signaled for help and eventually sank. Other boats in the area helped rescue other passengers aboard. Pulfer, who lived in Highland Park, Illinois, was on vacation with his family, including his three children who...

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Friends and family of William Grant gathered on Monday to remember the firefighter. William Grant was killed this past week in a collision between the fire truck he was riding on and a school bus. Grant leaves behind a wife and three small children.At least three other firefighters were injured in the accident and two of them remain hospitalized. The bus driver, who had a green light, was...

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A previous post indicated that two children were killed in an Indiana car accident on Sunday, when in fact only one child, the six year old, was killed. The other child, a twelve year old, is alive but was seriously injured. The accident took place between two cars and it is believed that the SUV that the children were riding in ran through a stop sign causing a car to run into the SUV's...

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Two boys that were traveling in a sports utility vehicle on Sunday were the victims of a car crash in Gary, Indiana. The two were riding in the front seat of the SUV when it crashed Sunday evening. The boys, ages twelve and six were brought to a local Gary, Indiana hospital where they were pronounced dead.There were another four people riding in the SUV at the time of the crash. No serious...

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As reported earlier today, a fire truck collided this morning with a school bus while it was in route to a call. The crash took place in Chicago at the intersection of 59th Street and Princeton Avenue. It has now been reported that 44 year old William Grant, a Chicago firefighter, was killed in the crash. There were other reported injuries including the bus driver who had dropped off the...

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As previously reported, a five year old girl from the Maine Township area was removed from her home Tuesday evening after police found her suffering from serious head trauma. The girl has since died from her injuries, but the investigation is ongoing as to what caused her head trauma.The child was with her parents and six other children when she was removed from her home Tuesday evening. The...

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Three college students were killed in a car accident early Wednesday morning after their car hit a cement pillar on Lower Wacker Drive. Witnesses said that the car was traveling at a high rate of speed but there have been no reports yet determining the cause of the accident. It could be possible that the City failed to properly renovate the road. Parts of Lower Wacker were renovated in 2002,...

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Two NIU students and one Purdue student were enjoying their spring break and were returning from dinner early Wednesday morning when they were killed. The three were driving on Lower Wacker Drive in Chicago when the car went out of control and crashed into a support pillar. The car burst into flames moments later and the three were unable to be rescued.Autopsies were planned on the victims and...

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A Riverside woman was killed while she was working at the Berwyn Metra station last year. A Range Rover drove up the embankment outside the station and crashed into the wall of the station where Kathleen Talmage was working at the time. The lawsuit claims that the city had plenty of notice that the street, Windsor Avenue leading up to the train station was dangerous and needed to be better...

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A New York family lost their son to a train accident in June of 2005. The man was driving his car early in the morning on a sunny June day when his car collided with a train. He never saw or heard the train coming. The sun glare blinded him and made the oncoming train invisible.The family filed a wrongful death suit against the train company saying that they were careless and negligent and...

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The Atlanta bus accident that occurred two weeks ago killing seven, including five Ohio baseball players, is not the first accident on this Atlanta interstate. Catherine Hartman also was a victim of this road nearly five years ago in 2002. The accident occurred back in 2002 when Hartman believed the exit ramp was a commuter lane. She still suffers from her injuries today.It is believed that...

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Four people were killed Thursday afternoon while on a helicopter tour in Hawaii. The helicopter reported problems only two miles after it had taken off. The helicopter crash is one of many that have occurred in Hawaii and in Alaska and are the reason for a recent push on new helicopter safety regulations.The National Transportation Safety Board issued a request for tougher regulations on tour...

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