Transportation Accidents

A 53-year-old nurse and her 60-year-old retired husband injured on the Edens Expressway when their car collided with a water tank that fell off a truck which had struck an overpass because the truck driver failed to lower hydraulics.

A 32-year-old carpenter suffers fractured pelvis when he falls off the back of his friend's 4-wheeler in Peoria.

A 30-year-old motorcyclist suffers anterior cruciate ligament injury (knee) when vehicle in front of him comes to a sudden stop after being cut off by a beer-delivery van.

An off duty 30-year-old police officer killed on motorcycle when van turned left in front of him.

A 20-year-old male electrician sustained fractures to the face and his right leg which required surgery when the vehicle in which he was traveling struck a tractor trailer as it negligently exited a gas station.

A 67-year-old married man killed when a speeding, overweight semi-tractor trailer rig strikes his vehicle.

Defendant driver of flatbed truck was hauling steel that extended four feet beyond the bed of the truck with no warning flags; 23-year-old client drove into the rear of the defendant truck and was struck in the head by the steel, suffering a concussion and facial fractures.

Off-duty Prospect Heights police officer on a motorcycle is sideswiped by an off-duty Chicago police officer on Interstate 90/94 as she attempts to enter local lanes from the express lane; officer on motorcycle suffers broken leg and other injuries requiring missing two months of work.

42-year-old woman is killed when her car is struck by semi-tractor trailer rig making an improper right turn.