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…
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Seven injured in two-vehicle Chicago car accident involving police car
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…
Aggressive driving behavior responsible for half of all car accidents
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…
Woman charged in Chicago car accident that killed motorcyclist
An August car accident that killed a Chicago motorcycle rider has resulted in felony DUI charges against the car’s driver. The 47-year-old North Ashland Avenue woman has been charged with aggravated DUI in connection with the Chicago car accident that killed a North Side motorcyclist, ABC7 reported. The case made…
2009 fatal car accident data released by NHTSA and Illinois
Traffic fatalities in 2009 are down nationwide, according to statistics released this past weekend by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which reviewed data for the first six months of the year. So far in 2009, 16,626 people have been killed in traffic accidents, a 7 percent reduction compared to…
Chicago car accident leaves two dead, two others in critical condition
Two people were killed and two others critically injured when a car crashed into a pole in the Austin neighborhood on the city’s West Side on the evening of Friday, October 2nd, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. The 29-year-old driver of the vehicle was pronounced dead at Stroger Hospital shortly…
Chicago area car accident kills 2, injures 4 in Park Ridge, Illinois
In the Chicago Northwest suburb of Park Ridge, Illinois a man and a woman were killed in a deadly auto accident early Sunday morning, according to the Chicago Sun-Times. Four others were hurt in the car crash. The accident took place at Oak Street and Riverside Drive around 2:10 a.m.…
Ohio man charged in fatal Chicago drunk driving accident
An Ohio man faces charges in connection with a weekend Chicago drunk driving accident that claimed two lives. The 27-year-old Cleveland man had a blood-alcohol level of .148 — nearly twice the legal limit — when the car he was driving slammed into another car, killing two South Side men,…
Two multi-car Chicago car accidents kill one, injure more than a dozen
One man was killed and more than a dozen others injured in separate multi-vehicle car accidents last Thursday in the Chicago area. In the first incident, an eight-vehicle Chicago car accident in suburban Crestwood claimed to life of a Country Club Hills man on Thursday morning, according to the Chicago…
AAA Foundation launches Heads Up Driving Week on Monday, runs Oct. 5-11 to combat distracted driving
The AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety and AAA are urging motorists to come together next week in avoiding anything that leads to distracted driving. From Oct. 5 to Oct. 11 the “Heads Up Driving Week” hopes to teach motorists better driving habits to avoid the dangers associated with distracted driving.…