Automobile Accidents

• Child injured in hit and run accident

  Barry Doyle | May 23, 2007 7:00 AM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL

  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...

• CTA notice law denies legitimate claims

  Barry Doyle | May 19, 2007 1:55 PM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL

  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...

• Wheel comes off tractor-trailer

  Barry Doyle | May 16, 2007 8:45 AM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL

  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,...

• Fatal collision with asphalt truck

  Barry Doyle | May 14, 2007 9:00 AM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL

  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...

• Joliet drunk driver hits ambulance

  Barry Doyle | May 07, 2007 10:30 PM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL

  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...

• DOT lists ten dangerous DuPage intersections

  Barry Doyle | May 03, 2007 7:45 AM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL

  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...

• Alcohol, cell phone use factor in Rockford crash

  Barry Doyle | May 02, 2007 8:15 AM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL

  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...

• Chain collision on toll road

  Barry Doyle | April 30, 2007 7:00 AM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL

  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...

• Head-on collision leaves four injured

  Barry Doyle | April 21, 2007 11:06 AM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL

  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...

• Crash injures two

  Barry Doyle | April 19, 2007 9:45 AM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL

  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...