On April 25, 2008, Marie Wilkins, a teacher at Everest College, started walking toward the Metra train station at Michigan and Van Buren streets in Chicago. She was walking south across Van Buren Street, between State and Wabash, where Van Buren intersects midblock with an alley. The alley…
William Andrews was driving northbound on Western Avenue on Feb. 11, 2007 when his car collided with a pickup truck driven by defendant Luis Chavez. Chavez ran the red light while travelling westbound on 139th Street in Blue Island. Andrews, 28, sustained a closed head injury with a brain bleed…
Sara Peretsky, a well-known author of the V.I. Warshawski novels, was a passenger with her husband, the driver, on Lake Shore Drive when they were rear-ended by another car that was driven by the 16-year-old defendant, Vy. Vy apparently lost control of his vehicle. The impact caused Peretsky’s vehicle to…
Lisa Learmonth filed suit against Sears in a case that was litigated in the federal court in the Southern District of Mississippi. Learmonth was injured in 2005 in a car accident with a Sears employee. She was seriously injured and filed suit against Sears for her damages. A jury in…
In June 2009, two trucks on westbound Interstate 80 crashed near or on the right shoulder of the highway. The driver of a second tractor trailer for Jefferson Trucking Co., also on westbound 80, crashed into the rear end of the stopped truck operated by Randolph Ferguson, who was driving for…