Coming soon: Public service announcements, newspaper articles, press releases, banner ads, TV commercials and increased enforcement aimed at reducing holiday drunk driving accidents. The Chicago drunk driving accident lawyers and the personal injury and wrongful death attorneys at Abels & Annes urge motorists to enjoy the upcoming holiday season by…
Illinois recorded the fewest traffic fatalities since 1923, according to an exhaustive report on 2008 traffic fatalities released by the Illinois Department of Transportation. The Chicago car accident attorneys and the Chicago injury lawyers at Abels & Annes are taking a look at the report in a series of blog…
A woman was reportedly killed Tuesday morning in a Chicago car accident on the South Side when a minivan driven by a drug suspect rammed her car while attempting to run down police officers, The Chicago Sun Times reported. The woman’s car was one of two civilian vehicles the suspect’s…
Authorities are seeking the driver responsible for running down three pedestrians in a Chicago hit-and-run pedestrian accident last month. The Sept. 26 incident happened on the 1200 block of South Halstead Street shortly after 2 a.m. The Chicago Breaking News Center reported three 19-year-old pedestrians, a man and two women,…
The federal government is poised to reduce by an hour the length of time long-distance truckers can stay behind the wheel, with the hope of reducing trucking accidents. CBS 2 used a Chicago trucking accident that occurred four years ago as an example: A sleepy, fatigued, and perhaps drugged trucker…
Speeding drivers cause an estimate one-third of all accidents at a cost of $44,193 per minute, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which has published a “Think Fast” campaigned aimed at reducing speed and speed-related accidents. A significant number of the car accidents handled by the Chicago injury…
Illinois Traffic Safety Leaders are urging motorists to use common sense through the upcoming Halloween Holiday weekend to avoid Chicago drunk driving accidents and DUI accidents on Illinois highways. The Chicago car accident attorneys at Abels & Annes encourage motorists to have a travel plan to prevent drunk driving, including…
Two men died last weekend in separate Chicago hit-and-run accidents as police continue to battle drivers who fail to stop after pedestrian accidents. CBS2 reported a 47-year-old Texan and a 60-year-old grandfather were killed in the latest crashes and in both cases the drivers fled the scene. The 60-year-old grandfather…
A Chicago car accident on Saturday in Logan Square has led to charges against a driver who allegedly hit a squad car. The 29-year-old woman was charged with failure to produce a driver’s license, no insurance, damage to city property and failure to yield to a stop sign, according to…
A new report by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety found that more than half of all traffic accidents in a recent five-year period were caused by some form of aggressive driving. I believe that many of the Chicago car accidents handled by the personal injury and wrongful death lawyers…