Illinois Truck Accident Lawyer Blog

There are many types of violations that Illinois drivers receive after being involved in a car or a trucking accident. If drivers familiarize themselves with Illinois traffic laws, hopefully the number of Illinois accidents would be reduced. Most drivers are aware of certain violations such as driving under the influence, driving with a suspended or revoked license, and leaving the scene of an accident (hit-and-run).

However, there are many actions that drivers may not realize are in violation of Illinois law, but that can also cause car or trucking accidents or lead to citations. Examples of these types of less commonly known laws are things such as driving without insurance or registration, driving without a seat belt on, and driving with certain types of vehicle modifications found to be unsafe. In order to become familiar with all Illinois driving laws and what every Illinois driver should know before driving, please click on this link.

Aside from these driving laws, there are certain truck-specific laws as well. All Illinois truck drivers are responsible for following these laws, ranging from safe vehicle operations to the transport of hazardous materials, and are subject to citation if these rules are not followed. For a complete set of Illinois trucking laws, please click on the link.

If you have been injured in a car or trucking accident in Illinois, our trucking accident attorneys may be able to help you seek compensation. Follow this link to contact an Illinois accident attorney.

A tractor trailer accident on January 23rd resulted in the death of two Chicago area residents. The truck accident occurred when a semi struck a van carrying the family, after the truck was reportedly weaving on the highway. The trucking accident resulted in the death of the two family members as well as personal injuries to sixteen other people involved in the fatal accident. According to The Chicago Tribune, samples were taken from both drivers to test to see if they were under the influence at the time of the trucking accident. If you would like more information on this trucking accident, please click here.

A trucking accident that occurred on January 19th on the I-290 seriously injured one man. The trucking accident occurred when one car was stopped on the highway and a tow truck struck the car, and then a third car was involved in the car accident. According to Chicago Sun Times, traffic was stopped after the crash and one of the people involved in the trucking accident had to be unpinned and taken to a local hospital in a helicopter. To read more about this Illinois trucking accident, please click on this link.

A Randolph County trucking accident on Route 13 that occurred when the driver of a vehicle attempted to pass a semi truck and crashed into a ditch, flipping the vehicle. The driver was not fatally injured, but one of the passengers was thrown from the car and died as a result of her personal injuries. The other three passengers were injured but are all expected to recover fully. According to WSIL TV, at this time the accident is still under investigation and the charges are pending. If you would like more information on this trucking accident, please click on this link.

A fatal trucking accident occurred on January 20th when a Red Cross truck and a semi-truck crashed on Illinois Route 3. According to The Southern, the victim was a passenger in the Red Cross truck which caused the trucking accident when the truck crossed the center lane and crashed into the semi that was traveling in the opposite direction. The Red Cross driver has been cited with improper lane usage. If you would like more information on this fatal accident, please click on this link.

A South Pekin woman was killed in an Illinois Route 29 trucking accident on January 20th. According to The PJ Star, the trucking accident was likely due to ice that had just formed on the road causing a pickup truck to skid into a semi-truck. The driver of the pickup truck was killed as a result of the trucking accident. Several other car accidents in the area were also believed to have been due to the icy weather. To read more about this trucking accident, please click on this link.

The victim of a trucking accident that occurred in 2007 is suing the company he worked for as well as the individual that was driving the truck that struck him. The victim was a paramedic and was riding with a patient in the back of an ambulance when the trailer of a truck struck the ambulance after the ambulance driver attempted to avoid the truck with the trailer. According to The West Virginia Record, the victim is seeking over $30,000 in damages. To read more about this trucking accident lawsuit, click here.

The families of the victims of a fatal trucking accident have filed a trucking accident lawsuit against the driver of the truck. The trucking accident occurred in 2008 when the victim’s car struck the trailer of a truck that was stopped across several lanes of traffic while waiting for a traffic light. Both of the people in the front seat of the passenger car were killed and the backseat passenger suffered serious personal injuries. According to The Aspen Times, the trucking accident lawsuit is against the trucking company alleging failure to adequately prepare the rig safely. To read more about this trucking accident lawsuit, click on this link.

A trucking accident that occurred on the morning of January 16th on Illinois Highway 53 in Rolling Meadows, resulted in the truck’s load of milk being spilled. According to Chicago Breaking News, the trucking accident occurred when a vehicle tried to cut over into another lane and a different vehicle was forced to swerve and then hit the milk truck. The driver of the original car has been charged with improper lane usage, but is unharmed. The other two drivers involved in the truck accident were taken to local hospitals, however their condition is non life-threatening. To read more about this Illinois accident, click here.

A trucking accident lawsuit filed by one the people injured in a trucking accident in which a five people died, which occurred back in 2005, has been settled and will not be going to trial. According to Chippewa.com, many other people were injured when the semi-truck struck a motor coach that the Plaintiff was a passenger on. To read more about this truck accident settlement, click on the link.

A trucking accident that occurred on January 15th resulted in the death of two sisters that were involved in the terrible crash. According to ETruth.com, the truck driver was an Illinois resident, and the crash occurred when the truck driver struck a car in which the two sisters were traveling. At this point no citations have been issued in connection with the fatal accident, and to read more about this tragic trucking accident please click on this link.

A trucking accident that occurred earlier this month resulted in the serious injury of an Illinois man. According to Alamogordo Daily News, the trucking accident happened when a tractor-trailer in which the victim was driving veered off of the road and hit a pole, causing the truck to roll onto its side. The victim was able to crawl out of the truck following the trucking accident and is now in a local hospital for treatment of the severe personal injuries incurred in the accident. To read more about this Illinois victim, please click on the hyperlink.

A trucking accident earlier this morning occurred when a semi-truck crashed into a car on the Bishop Ford Freeway on the South Side of Chicago. According to The Chicago Sun Times, at least one person involved in the trucking accident was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center and is listed in critical condition. Not much more is known about what caused the Illinois trucking accident at this time, but to read more please click on this hyperlink.

A Salem trucking accident early this morning left one Illinois woman injured. The trucking accident occurred when the victim was attempting to turn left and a semi-truck driver apparently failed to stop at a red light and crashed into the victim’s car. According to WJBD Radio, the victim had to be extricated from her vehicle but has since been treated and released from a local hospital. To read more about this trucking accident, please click on the link.

A truck accident in Wabash County resulted in the death of two people. The truck accident which occurred on January 10th occurred when a car crossed the center lane on Illinois Route 1 and crashed into a head-on into a pickup truck. The drivers of both of the vehicles involved in the truck accident were pronounced dead at the scene. According to The Courier Press, both of the victims were wearing their seatbelts at the time of the truck accident and the crash is still under investigation. To read more about this fatal truck accident, please click on this hyperlink.

A trucking accident that occurred on December 29th resulted in the injury of two people. The Joliet trucking accident was caused by a sports utility vehicle hitting a semi-truck on I-80. According to Suburban Chicago News, the SUV driver failed to stop in time and ended up underneath the semi-truck requiring the driver of the SUV to be extricated from the vehicle. The two people that were seriously personally injured in the trucking accident were the driver of the SUV and the passenger of the SUV. The driver will be cited with failure to reduce speed and possibly may face a DUI charge. If you would like more information on this Illinois trucking accident, please click on this link.

A fatal Interstate 70 trucking accident resulted in the death of four people and seriously injured six other people. The truck accident occurred when an awful snowstorm caused a truck to lose control and crash into a shuttle bus. According to The Springfield News Sun, the shuttle bus was carrying people with developmental disabilities, and all of the people that died in the trucking accident were passengers, and the driver, of the shuttle bus. The six people that suffered personal injuries were also passengers of the bus and were all Springfield residents. The driver of the truck suffered minor injuries and was released from a local hospital shortly after the trucking accident. If you would like to read more about this tragic accident, please click on this link.

An Aurora trucking accident that occurred on January 4th left an Illinois man with serious facial injuries. The accident occurred when the man was driving down Butterfield Road and a semitrailer in front of him passed under an underpass and knocked ice into the windshield of his car. According to The Chicago Tribune, the man was able to stop the car, move the ice and get out of the vehicle. The victim underwent surgery at Provena Mercy Medical Center, and is expected to recover from his personal injuries completely. Many people are concerned that there needs to be more awareness of this dangerous area of Butterfield Road because other trucking accidents of this type have occurred in this exact same location. To read more about this Illinois accident, click on this link.

A strange trucking accident that occurred in Aurora and resulted in the near death of a driver occurred when a semi-trailer drove under an overpass and ice that was on the overpass got caught on the truck and detached and struck a car driving behind the semi-truck. According to The Daily Herald, while this odd trucking accident seems like a very strange occurrence, several other people have reported similar accidents of this type on this same stretch of highway on Butterfield Road. The most recent of these trucking accidents occurred on January 4th when an Aurora man suffered multiple personal injuries and the ice crushed his windshield sending glass everywhere. To read more about this odd trucking accident problem, please click on this link.

A trucking accident lawsuit was filed in connection with a trucking accident that occurred in 2006 in which a truck struck a motorcyclist, killing the motorcycle driver. According to The St. Clair Record, the guardian of the victim’s two young children have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the trucking company and the driver of the truck that caused the fatal accident. According to the complaint, the St. Clair County trucking accident occurred on Illinois State Route 127 when the truck was exiting a ramp and struck the motorcyclist, and claims that the driver failed to keep a proper lookout for other vehicles, did not keep his truck under control and failed to yield the right of way. The trucking accident lawsuit seeks over $100,000 in damages. To read more about this recently filed Illinois lawsuit, please click on the hyperlink.

A Clark County trucking accident that occurred on January 5th left one Illinois man dead. The trucking accident occurred when the victim was under the influence of alcohol and then drove the wrong way on I-70, and then got into an accident with three other vehicles including two semi-trucks. According to Terre Haute News, the accident occurred near Marshall and three other people, aside from the initial driver, were taken to a local hospital for treatment of their personal injuries which did not appear to be life-threatening. To read more about this fatal trucking accident, please click on the link.

A trucking accident in Champaign caused one lane of Interstate 57 to be closed for several hours on January 4th. The trucking accident occurred when the load of pigs that the driver was carrying shifted in the truck and caused the truck to trip over. The truck then slid into the road blocking both of the southbound lanes. The truck driver was not injured and the veterinary teaching hospital and several students from the University of Illinois program were called in to assist in helping the pigs. According to The News-Gazette, the rescue was rather difficult due to the freezing temperatures and the truck driver was cited for failing to reduce speed in order to avoid an accident. To read more about this Champaign truck accident, click on the link.

A Lake Forest trucking accident on December 26th left two people dead. The trucking accident occurred on Route 60 and involved a semi-truck and a pickup. According to Justice News Flash, the accident occurred when the driver of the pickup lost control of his vehicle due to dangerous road conditions and spun into oncoming traffic, where a semi-truck crashed into the pickup, which caused the two people in the pickup to be fatally injured. If you would like to read more about this fatal Illinois trucking accident, please click on this hyperlink.

An accident that occurred on December 29th that injured a couple and their young children on the Dan Ryan Expressway is believed to have been caused by a semi-truck that then immediately fled the scene. This Chicago trucking accident occurred near 59th Street when, as authorities now believe, a semi-truck caused a pick-up truck to lose control of the car and hit a wall. According to Chicago Sun Times, while the semi-truck is not believed to have made actual contact with the pick-up truck the semi still may have caused the pickup to crash. The truck fled the scene and there were no witnesses to the trucking accident. The three passengers in the pickup were taken to Stroger Hospital of Cook County and University of Chicago’s Comer Children’s Hospital, and all conditions are currently unknown. To read more about this Chicago accident, please click on this link.

A one truck trucking accident occurred on December 21st when for unknown reasons a semi-truck caught fire and became completely engulfed. The trucking accident resulted in major traffic jams, closing off an entire direction of traffic. According to New York Injury News, local firefighters were able to get the fire under control rather quickly and the truck driver had been able to get out of the truck before it had caught on fire. To read more about this fiery trucking accident, click on this link.

A trucking accident resulted in the death of one young boy and injured his two siblings and their parents. According to Savannah Now, the fatal accident occurred on December 27th when the family’s van was struck from behind by a tractor-trailer carrying paper products that was going very fast. The victim’s car had just slowed down due to holiday traffic congestion and the truck had not responded to the slowing speed and when it hit the car, the car was pushed off the roadway. While the truck driver is suspected of driving too closely, at this time no citations have been issued and no charges have been filed at this point. To read more about this fatal trucking accident, click here.