Automobile Accidents | InjuryBoard Cook County

Monday's horrific school bus accident is in the news again because authorities have learned that the bus driver was drunk at the time of the crash. The driver apparenly had three double shots of whiskey before dropping off the children, and then drank a six pack of beer before the crash.Fortunately, there were no children on the bus at the time of the accident, but the bus struck a pedestrian...

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A South Carolina boy is recovering from injuries sustained when he was the victim of a hit-and-run accident. The boy was playing on the sidewalk when he was hit by a car which fled the scene.The child suffered a fractured femur which required surgery for the placement of pins to stabilize the fracture.Under Illinois law and the law of most states, hit-and-run drivers are considered uninsured...

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NBC News had a recent feature on a little-known statute which requires persons injured in accidents with the CTA to provide the CTA with a special statutory notice. If the notice is not completed or if information is missing or wrong, then the lawsuit gets dismissed. It does not matter that the CTA has the correct information - the lawsuit still gets dismissed.The woman featured in the NBC...

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Outside Seattle last week, a wheel assembly came off a tractor trailer while it was moving, bounded over the median, and smashed into the windshield of a minivan going in the other direction.The front seat passenger of the minivan was killed instantly. An inspection of the tractor trailer after the accident showed that the brake system to the trailer had come apart.Before going out on the road,...

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A Texas man was killed last week when he was driving through a construction zone. An asphalt truck left the roadway and then re-entered it. The man struck the rear-end of the asphalt truck as it came back onto the roadway. The driver of the asphalt truck was ticketed for failing to yield while entering the roadway.The man suffered such severe injuries that he was pronounced dead at the...

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In Joliet last weekend, a drunk driver blew a stop light and hit an ambulance which was taking a heart attack patient to the hospital. The ambulance rolled over and hit two other vehicles which were waiting for it to clear the intersection.The heart attack patient died later at the hospital. Authorities are trying to determine whether the accident played a role in his passing. The ambulance...

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The Illinois Dept. of Transportation recently presented the Daily Herald with the list of the ten intersections in DuPage County where the most accidents took place. Topping the list was Route 83 and North Avenue in Elmhurst, with 79 accidents in 2005.The list is not a ranking of the most dangerous intersections per se because the list does not take into account fatalities and serious...

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In Rockford, the driver of a car heading west on Interstate 90 was driving drunk and talking on his cell phone when he lost control of his vehicle and crossed over the median, hitting a minivan carrying a Minnesota family of five.All five passengers of the minivan were hospitalized with serious injuries. The accident was fatal for the drunk driver.Drunk driving and cell phone use are...

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Last week, there was a chain collision on the Indiana toll road. The accident took place as traffic stopped to allow authorities to remove a disabled vehicle from the shoulder of the road. A tractor trailer driver was not paying attention as he approached the line of stalled vehicles and plowed into the rear of the vehicle ahead of him without slowing.In all, seven vehicles besides the tractor...

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Four people were injured in a head-on collision on Connecticut. There were three people in one of the vehicles and one in the other. Three people had to be cut out of the one vehicle.All four people were hospitalized, three in critical condition.Accidents with multiple injuries underline the importance of carrying underinsured motorist coverage on your own vehicle. Underinsured coverage is...

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An Oklahoma accident has left two seriously injured. The crash occurred when the driver of one vehicle slowed to make a right hand turn off of a state highway. The driver behind them did not slow and struck them from behind.The driver was air-lifted from the scene with neck and back injuries while his passenger was hospitalized with head injuries.Inattention is a factor that gets far too...

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Four vehicles were involved a chain reaction collision in Fox River Grove. A soutbound vehicle was waiting to make a left hand turn off of Route 14 when her vehicle was hit by a northbound vehicle. The impact pushed her backwards, where her vehicle was clipped by a southbound truck which spun the woman's vehicle around and into the path of yet another southbound vehicle which T-boned the...

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A Tulsa police officer was injured while pursuing a fleeing motorist when another driver failed to stop for the siren and flashing lights and pulled into an intersection in front of him. He hit the rear bumper of the car and flipped over.He suffered numerous injuries, including a fracured collarbone, a fractured tailbone, multiple rib fractures, and road rash.Every motorist has the obligation...

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A recent accident in Prairie Grove claimed the life of an expectant mother. She was driving south on Route 31 when a drunk driver heading north on Route 31 crossed over the center line.The pregnant woman sustained fatal injuries, and her passengers were hospitalized with serious injuries.This accident is a tragedy for all involved, but especially for the family of the woman who was killed, as...

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Outside of Columbus, Ohio, the driver of a pick-up truck ran a red light and struck another vehicle on the driver's side door. The pick-up truck driver received a ticket.The driver of the other vehicle had to be cut out of his vehicle and was flown to the hospital with a fractured leg.The issue of who received a ticket is one which is not always as significant as it seems. The law in Illinois...

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