Automobile Accidents

• Illinois Dram Shop Law And 2009 Liability Limits

  Kristina Labanauskas | March 03, 2009 7:55 PM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL

  When someone is injured by a drunk driver, the injured person has the right to pursue a claim for negligence against the driver. In addition to the negligence claim, the injured person may also have...

• Dram Shop Act limits adjusted

  Barry Doyle | January 31, 2007 4:00 PM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL

  Under an Illinois law known as the Dram Shop Act, persons injured by intoxicated persons can recover damages from establishments licensed to sell liquor by the State of Illinois which sold or gave liquor to the intoxicated person. However, the amount recoverable in damages is capped. That amount is adjusted annually in accordance with a consumer price index.State Comptroller Dan Hynes, whose...

• Video of Chicago Amtrak crash shows train speeding

  Barry Doyle | December 04, 2007 7:31 AM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL

  One of the unusual features of the recent Chicago Amtrak crash is that the event was captured on video. In most personal injury cases, descriptions of the events come entirely from eyewitnesses who may describe the same event in very different ways.IThe Norfolk Southern security shows the violence of the train crash as the Amtrak train smashes into the back of the stopped freight train.Other...

• Three-vehicle Auto Accident in Sugar Grove

  Kristina Labanauskas | February 09, 2009 11:22 AM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL

  Just before 7 a.m. this morning, three vehicles were involved in an automobile accident that left three people, all drivers, seriously hurt. The accident took place along Illinois 47 just north of...

• Man Killed in Fatal I-275 Motorcycle Crash

  Courtney Mills | August 22, 2007 1:07 PM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL

  Nicholas C. Kopplin of Overland, Missouri, was riding his motorcycle on Tuesday night at a high rate of speed when he lost control and ran it into the guard rail of the median dividing I-275. According to a Florida Highway Patrol statement, Kopplin was not wearing a helmet at the time he was thrown from the motorcycle, which occurred at around 6 o'clock in the evening.Nicholas C Kopplin, a...

• South Side Crash leads to death, injury for pedestrians

  Kristina Labanauskas | April 06, 2009 3:16 PM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL

  A Northwestern Memorial Hospital manager was killed and a 7-year-old boy was severely injured on Saturday morning at Ashland Avenue and 95th Street after two vehicles collided near the...

• Mundelein Car Crash

  Kristina Labanauskas | November 20, 2008 6:02 PM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL

  A car collided with a gravel truck in Mundelein on Wednesday morning, resulting in serious injuries to the female driver. The accident took place at Route 83 and Hawley Street. The woman was...

• Chicago Bicycle Accident Highlights Importance of City Bike Safety

  Kristina Labanauskas | June 26, 2008 12:00 PM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL

  On any given day, you will see dozens of bicyclists navigating through the busy City streets. Yet, statistics show that biking during the summer in urban traffic can be downright deadly. In fact,...

• Safety Group Advocates Total Ban on Cell Phone Use While Driving

  Kristina Labanauskas | January 16, 2009 12:29 PM | 0 CommentsCook County, IL

  The National Safety Council is the first major national safety group to call for a total ban on using cell phones while driving, including hand-held and hands-free cell phones. The group also...

• 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...