As it makes a final push through the Holiday season, Illinois’ Operation Save 100 reported that 204 agencies had arrested 1,814 people for drunk driving and issued almost 10,000 seat belt citations. The Chicago car accident lawyers at Abels & Annes remind motorists that the new year’s weekend is typically…
Friday was the most dangerous day on the road in Illinois — logging 58,474 crashes in 2008 Noon to 8 p.m., the most dangerous time of day, logged about 180,000 of the 340,000 urban crashes, according to the release of the Illinois Department of Transportation’s 2008 Crash Facts and Statistics.…
Four Chicago Transit Authority employees have been placed on unpaid leave, the Chicago Tribune reported, after a weekend Chicago train accident sent at least 14 people to the hospital. The Sun-Times reported that 14 of the train’s 48 passengers were taken by ambulances to area hospitals. Transit officials have blamed…
A total of 7,813 Chicago construction zone accidents and accidents in work zones throughout Illinois killed 31 people and injured 1,985, according to the release of the Illinois Department of Transportation’s annual crash statistics report. The Chicago car accident lawyers at Abels & Annes want to remind motorists to use…
An Alsip man was pronounced dead Sunday morning following a fatal Chicago car accident in the Morgan Park neighborhood, the Chicago Breaking News Center reported. The 54-year-old South Karlov Avenue man was pronounced dead at 1:22 a.m. at MetroSouth Medical Center in Blue Island, according to the Cook County Medical…
An apparent feud between two drivers ramming into each other resulted in a cyclist being killed in a Chicago bicycle accident on the Northwest Side when he got caught in the altercation on West Diversey, the Chicago Breaking News Center reported. As Abels & Annes reported earlier on the firm’s…
A cyclist was killed over the weekend in a Chicago bicycle accident involving a 2004 Chevy Monte Carlo, the Sun-Times reported. The bicyclist was struck by the car shortly after 11:30 p.m. Sunday night in Chicago’s Jefferson Park neighborhood, according to police. The 22-year-old Northwest Side man was taken to…
Admit it, you’ve done it: Late for work or just plain freezing, you have chipped away a small peephole in your windshield and relied upon the wipers and the defroster to expand your world before you get too far down the road. As Old Man Winter arrives in the Windy…
A pair of Chicago train accidents claimed two lives and injured several others Thursday afternoon. A woman remained hospitalized Friday morning after her husband was killed in a Chicago car accident involving a train. Their car was struck by a Metra train in Bensenville at a railroad crossing near York…
Chicago injury attorneys from Abels & Annes have reached a workers’ compensation settlement for a South Side woman who was injured at work in May of 2007. She is employed with the Anixster Center, a company that works with people with disabilities. She was hurt while trying to help staff…