A bicyclist was stuck by a car and killed Thursday evening on Lake shore Drive on the North Side of Chicago. This wrongful death occurred while the man was riding a bicycle in the 3300 block of North Lake Shore Drive at about 5:45 p.m. when he was hit by a car. The man died en route to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center.
A child was seriously injured Thursday afternoon as a result of a dog bite, the Chicago Suntimes reported.
The pit bull ran out of an alley at about 12:45 pm near the intersection of South Western Avenue and 57th Street and bit the 11 year old boy on his neck and legs. The boy was taken in serious condition to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn.
As is standard procedure, the dog was brought to Animal Care and Control where it will be quarantined for 10 days.
In his new book "Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do" Tom Vanderbilt uncovered a lot of surprising information by digging into driving studies. For example:
- Drivers honk less on weekends.
- Pedestrians on cell phones take longer to cross the street, and look at traffic less often
- More people are killed legally in crosswalks than jaywalking.
- Half of all traffic fatalities happen at impact speeds of less than 35 mph.
- 350 people die every year entering the freeway the wrong way; at least 50 are killed by cars in driveways
- "Children at Play" signs do not reduce speed or accidents
- Car drivers drive closer to helmeted cyclists (and further from cyclists who appear to be
women).
Northwestern Memorial Hospital emergency room in Chicago sees about one pedestrian accident victim a day because they or someone else was walking and texting at the same time according to Dr. James Adams, the hospital's chair of emergency medicine.
Distracted texters fall down stairs, run into objects, and it is not unheard of for bicycle riders and rollerbladers to end up in the emergency room after crashing while texting.
Facial injuries are common since a texter is typically using both hands to text and is less likely to break his or her fall with their hands according to Dr. Adams.
Source: Monifa Thomas, Chicago Sun-Times, July 28, 2008
