Boy dead after Illinois auto accident

August 19th, 2010 | Auto accident

A child is dead following a four-car Chicago auto accident. According to ABC News 7, a car the boy was riding in was headed eastbound on Fullerton Avenue when it rear-ended another car in the Chicago auto accident. The child was taken to a local hospital following the Chicago auto accident, but he later died.… Read More

Does punishment fit crime in hit and run Chicago auto accidents?

August 12th, 2010 | Cofmantownsley

Chicago auto accidents are inevitable with the volume of traffic during the day, but the suburbs have experienced one too many hit-and-run Chicago auto accidents. Though one Chicago auto accident is too many, there are two cases in the suburbs in which drivers have left the scene of an auto accident, according to DailyHerald.com. In… Read More

Mining accident leads to Illinois wrongful death

July 15th, 2010 | Wrongful death

A mining accident resulted in the Illinois wrongful death of an employee, according to PublicBroadcasting.net. The mine is owned by St. Louis-based Peabody Energy. The Mine Safety and Health Administration recently singled out this mine as being particularly dangerous before the Illinois wrongful death occurred. Read more. Do you or a loved one have a… Read More

Victims taken to hospital following Missouri auto accident

July 1st, 2010 | Cofmantownsley

A Missouri auto accident sent several people to Cox South Hospital with injuries, according to News-Leader.com. Two children, ages 5 and 9, and two adults, ages 20 and 56, were injured as a result of the Missouri auto accident. A 59-year-old man was pronounced dead at the hospital after the Missouri auto accident. The Missouri… Read More

Athlete involved in Springfield auto accident

June 17th, 2010 | Cofmantownsley

A college athlete is recovering from Springfield auto accident injuries, according to OzarksFirst.com. The Missouri State Highway Patrol said the Missouri State basketball player was driving a vehicle that overturned and ejected him. The cause of the Springfield auto accident wasn’t specified in the police report. Read more. What concerns you about other Springfield drivers?… Read More

Chicago child killed in DUI accident

June 3rd, 2010 | Drunk driving

A 10-year-old Chicago boy is dead after being crushed between two vehicles, according to Examiner.com. A man was driving under the influence on the 6900 block of North Ashland when his car crashed into a parked car. The parked car was shoved and crushed a child who was walking between that vehicle and another. Read… Read More

St. Louis man, infant die after swerving off road

May 27th, 2010 | Personal injury

A St. Louis man rescued from the River Des Peres after an auto accident later died at Barnes Jewish Hospital, according to fox2now.com. The 24-year-old St. Louis man had been heading home on River Des Peres Boulevard with his 7-month-old son when he unexplainably swerved off the road and into the storm water channel and… Read More

Hit-and-run kills St. Louis man

May 20th, 2010 | Auto accident

A 66-year-old St. Louis man is dead after he was struck by a vehicle. According to FOX2now.com, the man was crossing Kingshighway at Connecticut in south St. Louis, and the 66-year-old lived a few blocks from there. Police are searching for four men who left the car that struck the 66-year-old St. Louis man. Read… Read More

12 taken to hospital after Chicago CTA accident

May 13th, 2010 | Personal injury

Twelve people were taken to hospitals after a CTA bus crashed into a school building in the West Side’s Humboldt Park neighborhood in Chicago as a result of an accident, according to The Chicago Sun-Times. “A westbound No. 66 (Chicago Avenue) bus was involved in a collision with a car that resulted in the bus… Read More

SUV plows into Springfield home

April 22nd, 2010 | Drunk driving

An SUV hit a house in Springfield, Missouri, on North Kansas Expressway. According to a report on News-Leader.com, Springfield police officers say the driver of a Dodge Durango lost control, and rolled the vehicle into a house. The people in the vehicle fled the scene, and no one in the home was hurt. Police later… Read More