A New Lenox couple and a Joliet man were killed this morning in an automobile accident in a southwest suburb of Chicago. The automobile accident was a head-on collision between two pickup trucks on an icy patch of road. Police are still trying to determine the cause of the truck accident.
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Multiple people were sent to the hospital today after personal injuries received in an automobile accident involving a CTA bus in Chicago. The Chicago bus accident occurred around 1:00 pm today. The bus was struck by a vehicle as the bus was crossing the intersection. After the initial collision, a bicycle accident occurred as the bus hit a cyclist. The personal injuries received resulted in conditions labeled from good to serious-to-critical.
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A recent article highlighted the risk facing truck drivers that trucking jobs appear to carry added risks of lung cancer. That risk for truck drivers grows incrementally each year that workers remain in jobs as drivers and other roles that involve regular explosure to diesel fumes and other pollutants.
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Heavy winds can be just as dangerous as icy conditions for truck drivers. When driving truck drivers need to take precautions to prevent truck accidents that can result in their own truck accident injuries or truck crashes with other drivers on the road. Recently, a truck carrying a supply of office equipment was hit by a gust of wind causing the supply to fall off on the highway almost causing a highway accident. However, luckily no cars or people were hit by the truck’s load. To read the full story click here.
Icy roads are prone to create truck accidents and car accidents. As Chicago, Illinois faces heavy snowfalls drivers need to be extra careful to follow the speed limits and take extra precautions. Regardless of how careful a driver can be snow and ice can cause multiple car crashes on toll roads. A recent truck accident caused a death toll of four dead accident victims and other car accident injuries on an Indiana toll road. Two of the four dead individuals were Marines. As winter conditions worsen drivers are cautioned to drive slowly and to stay away from large trucks and semitrailers who may easily spin out of control and cause injuries or death. To read the full story on this recent car and truck accident click here.
The Chicago Tribune reported today that an airplane veered off the runway and burst into flames in an airplane accident. Thirty-eight people were injured. Officials are still trying to figure out why the plane burst into flames.
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A tractor trailer was carrying 5,000 gallons of liquid fertilizer when it rolled-over at the intersection of 95th Street and South LaGrange road in the Chicago suburb of Hickory Hills. The truck driver was heading south on LaGrange Road when he swerved to avoid a truck accident with an eastbound car as the traffic light changed. The heavy load shifted inside the tanker when he took evasive action which caused the truck to roll in the truck accident. The truck driver was “shook up” by the truck accident but nobody else was personally injured. Chicago suburban firefighters cleaned up a minor leakage from the truck accident. The truck driver was taken to the hospital to check for personal injuries. Police did cite him for failure to reduce speed to avoid an automobile accident. The car that the truck driver swerved to avoid in the automobile accident fled the scene. The cab and trailer of the tanker both overturned which caused a “very small leak” of sewage. At this time, no truck accident lawsuits have been filed. To read the full story, click here.
The American Association for Justice has recently updated the litigation packet on Interstate Trucking: Regulations, Discovery, and Damages. It includes discussion and guidance in truck accident lawsuits.
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Railroad companies will soon be immune from state personal injury lawsuits thanks to a late filed regulation that the Transportation Safety Administration adopted recently. Like in other premises, the Bush Administration states that state personal injury lawsuits and other tort lawsuits are impliedly pre-empted by federal law. But, the American Association for Justice disagrees and says that Congress in a 2007 measure related to a train accident expressed that it did not intend to pre-empt state personal injury claims.
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A recent analysis has found that one commuter rail system has a higher fatality rate than most larger systems throughout the country. The Metrolink commuter system was responsible for almost two-thirds of the nation’s passenger wrongful deaths in train accidents over the past six years.
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Trucking company workers who have been regularly exposed to diesel exhaust from vehicles have a higher rate of lung cancer according to a national study. Short-haul drivers had higher rates than long-haul drivers.
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An 11 year-old was killed in a tragic truck accident in a Christmas parade this weekend. She fell from a truck and was run over by a parade float. She was pronounced dead after suffering severe head wounds.
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Attorneys for a defendant in a truck accident lawsuit are arguing that their client cannot get a fair trial in five nearby counties. The truck accident occurred in July when the defendant allegedly lost control of his tractor-trailer, slamming into an SUV, killing one and injuring four others. A wrongful death lawsuit and a personal injury lawsuit have also been filed in regards to this truck accident.
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Worshipers at St. Gertrude’s Catholic Church in Chicago mourned two longtime parishioners always looking to volunteer after they were killed when their car crashed into a semi-truck. The truck accident also personally injured two other parishioners, ages 70 and 75. Police said that their car most likely hit an icy patch in southern DeKalb, Illinois, lost control and drove onto oncoming traffic in the truck accident. The truck’s driver tried to avoid hitting the car but since the roads were snow-covered and icy he could not avoid the automobile accident. The two women are currently in serious and critical condition with personal injuries at the hospital. The two others were pronounced dead at the scene. At this time, no wrongful death lawsuits have been filed. To read the full story, click here.
A truck accident occurred last week when a man was driving a pickup truck and crossed the center line, striking another truck. A passenger was killed in the truck accident and another individual was injured.
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Last weekend, a truck carrying oil veered off the road and into a ravine. The driver of the truck was killed in the truck accident. The driver, a 63 year-old man, was driving a truck-trailer combination on a gravel road at the time.
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