A four year old boy was bit by a pit bull in his own backyard and is in critical condition the Chicago Sun-Times reported Friday. The boy was in his own back yard at 3500 block of West Cortland when a pit bull that was being kept in the same…
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71 Pedestrians Killed Each Year In Chicago
71 pedestrians are killed and 930 are seriously injured every year in Chicago according to a Chicago Suntimes article published today. Nearly one-third of the pedestrian accidents are hit-and-runs. Anyone who lives in Chicago knows that drivers do not stop at crosswalks in Chicago like they do in other cities.…
Bicyclist Deaths Raise Safety Concerns
Anyone who drives in Chicago probably has noticed that there are more bicyclists sharing the roadway with automobiles than ever before. Unfortunately, there seem to also be more bicyclist accidents than ever before. One cannot help to be moved by the white painted bicycles that stand as memorials at the…
Bicyclist Dies in North Side Chicago Crash
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…
Dog Bites Child, 11, on Southwest Side of Chicago
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…
Weird Traffic Facts about Drivers, Accidents, and Driving
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…
Chicago Texters Get Hit By Cars
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…