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…
Clanton Pitchford, a truck driver, was in Tucson, Ariz., in 2006 and spent a night in his semi-trailer truck parked at a truck stop. The accident that caused this lawsuit was the collision with the rear end of Pitchford’s truck and a Knight Transportation truck traveling at about 5 mph.…
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…
In 1991, the nation’s highways limited the weight of trucks at 80,000 pounds. That has been the law ever since. But there is now an effort under way by the trucking industry to increase that weight limit for trucks to 97,000 pounds. The additional weight limit may cause a safety…
Robin R. Foreman v. Gunite Corporation, 2012 IL App. (1st) 091644U. Robin Foreman was a truck driver employed by Distribution Services, Inc. (DSI). He had a regular truck route transferring material from Gunite Corporation‘s Illinois facility to its Indiana location. Foreman was traveling eastbound on I-290 near its intersection with…
Every day we get into cars with other drivers; however, we rarely think about the fact that we are entrusting our lives into those drivers. In the case of Cheri Razim, John Razim v. Steven R. Erickson, Zachary Stewart, 08 L 351 (Winnebago County), the plaintiff, Cheri Razim, sued the…
The Illinois Appellate Court recently examined a landowner’s duty to warn visitors of an open and obvious hazard in Paul T. Swearingen v. Momentive Specialty Chemicals, Inc., No. 11-2088 (December 7, 2011). The personal injury claim examines whether a company and its employees owed a duty to a truck driver…
It is one of the first things you learn in driver’s ed and is repeated over and over again to new drivers: always keep your eyes on the road. However, this advice is useful not only for new drivers, but for experienced drivers, too. Take for instance the case of…