Chicago Car Accident Lawyers Blog

Illinois car crash attorneys at Abels & Annes have signed on to represent a woman who was injured in a motor vehicle accident on the North Side of Chicago in September 2010. The accident happened at the intersection of Greenleaf and Sheridan Road. Our client was driving eastbound on Greenleaf with a green light when the defendant, who was southbound on Sheridan, ran a red light and hit the plaintiff’s vehicle.

The accident was investigated by the Chicago Police Department. The defendant admitted fault to the investigating officer.

Shortly after the accident, the plaintiff developed pain on the left side of her neck and shoulder. She has since started medical treatment with a physician in Chicago. She has also been diagnosed with post traumatic stress due to the accident.

Abogados de accidente de carro en Chicago de Abels & Annes han llegado a un acuerdo para representar a una mujer del Sur que resultó herida en una collision trasera en el autopista Eisenhower. El accidente sucedió en septiembre de 2010 en los carriles hacia el este alrededor de 1st Avenue en Maywood, Illinois.

Nuestro cliente estaba viajando a una velocidad normal cuando se dio cuenta de un vehículo que se acercaba atrás de ella en una tasa muy alta de velocidad. El vehículo entonces golpeó el vehículo del demandante por detrás.

La policía del estado de Illinois respondió al accidente. Después de una investigación, el policía le dio al conductor de defecto un ticket por no reducir la velocidad para evitar un accidente. El conductor le dijo a la policía que él no estaba poniendo atención en el momento de la collision.

Chicago car accident lawyers at Abels & Annes have entered into an agreement to represent a South side woman who was injured in a rear end collision on the Eisenhower Expressway. The accident happened in September of 2010 in the eastbound lanes around 1st Avenue in Maywood, Illinois.

Our client was traveling at a normal rate of speed when she noticed a vehicle approaching behind her at a very high rate of speed. The speeding vehicle then struck the plaintiff’s vehicle from behind.

The Illinois State Police responded to the accident. After an investigation, the trooper issued the at fault driver a ticket for failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident. The driver told police he wasn’t paying attention at the time of the collision.

Our Chicago car accident attorneys continue to publish results of the Illinois Department of Transportation’s report on serious and fatal accident statistics for 2009.

As we reported recently, fewer Illinois car accidents contributed to the nationwide reduction last year, but still more than 250 people a day were injured in traffic accidents in Illinois. On average, the state reports more than 800 crashes per day.

The Chicago Tribune reported that the University of North Texas is claiming that 16,141 people were killed in car accidents caused by text messaging while driving in the five years between 2002 and 2007.

Our Chicago accident lawyers frequently report on the dangers of distracted driving, and particularly text messaging while driving. However, there is rarely an effort to put a concrete number on the danger, primarily because of a lack of reporting standards at the state and local level.In this study, the university used the federal government’s Fatal Accident Reporting System and texting records from several sources within the wireless telecom industry. Without texting, researchers calculated there would have been 1,925 deaths due to distracted driving. However, text messaging led to a skyrocketing rate that reached 5,988 in 2007.

A law banning the use of cell phones in Chicago has likely led to a reduction in serious and fatal Chicago car accidents. The State of Illinois banned text messaging by drivers at the start of this year.

Among the findings of the report:

-The percentage of traffic deaths caused by distracted driving increased from 11 percent in 1999 to 16 percent in 2008.

-Cities and other urban areas are more prone to distracted driving accidents.

-The last decade has seen an explosion in the popularity of cell phones. One-third of U.S. residents had cell phones in 1999. By 2008, 91 percent of us had them.

-The popularity of text messaging has also skyrocketed, from 1 million texts a month in 2002 to 110 million a month in 2008.

The 6 percent of drivers using a cell phone at any given time has not changed since 2005, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Apparently, what has changed is how we use them.

The study suggests criminal charges and citations for texting while driving and the routine use of cell phone records in accident investigations could help reduce the trend.
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