A motorist survey conducted throughout the United States and in parts of Europe reportedly suggests that American drivers are more likely than residents of other nations to text while behind the wheel of a motor vehicle. According to researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for…
Internet giant Google supposedly has plans for self-driving vehicles to be on the roadways in Illinois and the rest of the nation within five years. Automobile safety regulators and insurance industry officials, however, are reportedly skeptical of the idea. Currently, approximately 33,000 individuals are killed in traffic accidents across the…
In early March, a 41-year-old former Markham police officer was charged with a federal civil rights violation in connection with the alleged sexual abuse of an individual while acting in his official capacity in 2010. Federal Bureau of Investigation agents reportedly arrested the former officer at his home in suburban…
A 58-year-old woman was recently killed in a public bus accident that occurred on the South Side of Chicago. According to Police News Affairs Officer Veejay Zala, the woman was riding a PACE suburban bus that was headed south on Halsted Street when the driver suddenly swerved to avoid a…
According to the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT), 957 people died in a traffic accident in Illinois in 2012. If you travel on one of the freeways or tollways located throughout the state, you likely already knew that. As part of a statewide safety campaign, IDOT message boards across the…
In February, four civil lawsuits were filed on behalf of anonymous men against a convicted pedophile and two area school districts. The Cook County Circuit Court lawsuits accuse 76-year-old Thomas Hacker of sexually assaulting four boys in the 1970s and 1980s while he was employed by the two school districts.…
A construction worker was recently injured while working on a four-story building project at Edward Hospital in Naperville. According to Naperville Fire Department Bureau Chief Kevin Lyne, the man was hurt while standing on the roof of the hospital’s West Building after construction material fell on him. Although the man…
Over the past four years, there were no fatal accidents that involved a United States commercial airline. Unfortunately, during the same four years, at least 100,000 people were killed in preventable traffic collisions across the country. Data from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration states more than 32,000 people die…
A 27-year-old bicyclist was reportedly critically hurt when he was struck by a hit-and-run driver on North Milwaukee Avenue in Chicago. The Lakeview resident and bicycle courier was allegedly hit just before noon near Wood Street while on his way home from Wicker Park. According to the bicyclist’s mother, the…
In a report that was recently published in the journal Injury Prevention, researchers claim motorcyclists over age 60 are three times more likely to sustain a serious injury in a crash than their younger counterparts. As part of the study, researchers at Brown University reportedly analyzed motorcycle accident data included…