Chicago Personal Injury Law Blog

Vehicle collisions happen on Chicago streets all the time. In most circumstances the drivers involved in the car accidents are able to get their vehicles off of the streets to avoid causing problems for other people. In some cases the accidents are severe enough that people outside of the vehicles become involved.

An accident in a northwest Chicago neighborhood ended with one of the vehicles leaving the street and crashing into the yard of a private home. Several people were outside of the home at the time of the accident, which resulted in five ambulances responding to attend to six injured individuals. Among the injured were two children, and four of the six injured people were initially listed in critical condition with serious injuries. Two local hospitals received the accident victims for treatment.

Senior citizens and their families in Cook County often have challenging decisions to make as to where an elder relative should live and what kind of care is needed. While many families would prefer to care for the elder at home, this is often not possible in families where two spouses must work full-time jobs to make ends meet. And seniors can require closer supervision and more intensive care than a family can provide. Cook County residents depend on nursing homes in these common scenarios, which is why stories of nursing home neglect from all over the country tend to hit home especially hard.

One nursing home in Ohio recently came under federal scrutiny for a number of deficiencies uncovered by inspectors. Among the more shocking was the story of a male patient with dementia who had discovered a way to access an area of the facility where female patients lived. There, he was able to sexually abuse a female patient, also with dementia. Other issues at the nursing home included giving a patient with depression the wrong dosage of medication and failing to keep a registered nurse on duty around the clock.

Car collisions are common occurrences and accidents happen on Chicago-area roadways every day. As recently discussed on this blog, inexperienced young drivers are often the victims of car accidents, though anyone can suffer an injury as a result of a motor vehicle crash. A recent deadly car accident highlights how a driver's negligence can lead to a devastating roadway incident.

An early morning crash on Easter Sunday left one person dead and two others injured on the Bishop Ford Expressway. One car collided into another as both vehicles traveled south on Interstate 94, resulting in fatal injuries and lane closures on the freeway for several hours. An investigation into the cause of the crash is pending, though alcohol is believed to be involved.

Parents of teenagers know what it means to worry. And among the dangers they know confront their children, car accidents rank high. Some Chicago-area parents got the worst news a parent can get recently.

Wilmington, Illinois, a small town on the Kankakee River about 50 miles from Chicago, recently mourned the deaths of four teenagers who died when their vehicle went off the road and plunged into a creek. The four were all between 15 and 17 years old.