Posts tagged Personal Injury

• Chicago to New York Bus Crashes Over Weekend

  Jamie G. Goldstein | May 24, 2007 6:30 AM | 0 CommentsChicago, IL Category: Wrongful Death
  

  As a follow up to a previous post about the Pennsylvania bus crash early Sunday morning near Clearfield, Pennsylvania, it is now known that the bus ran up an embankment and flipped on its side. Investigators do not know at this time what caused the bus to run up the embankment.Nine people are still hospitalized from the crash with injuries ranging from fair to critical. The bus driver has not...

• Chicago Bus Accident Claims 1 Life, Injures Several Others

  Jamie G. Goldstein | May 23, 2007 9:15 AM | 0 CommentsChicago, IL Category: Wrongful Death
  

  A school bus traveling northbound on Garfield Boulevard Monday morning is to blame for the death of a 22 year old pedestrian. The bus driver was turning onto Wentworth Avenue when it is believed he began suffering from some type of medical condition. The bus hit a pedestrian and at least two cars causing the death of one man and injuries to nine others. There were no children on the bus at...

• Three Men Killed In Chicago Car Accident

  Jamie G. Goldstein | May 22, 2007 3:15 PM | 0 CommentsChicago, IL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  An accident around midnight claimed the lives of three men on Chicago's Southeast Side. It is believed that two vehicles collided when one car was speeding and disobeyed the traffic signal causing it to slam into and t-bone the other car. There were several parked cars that were also involved in the accident.The families of the men killed may be entitled to recover for the wrongful deaths of...

• Pennsylvania Bus Crash Kills Two Injures Thirty-One

  Jamie G. Goldstein | May 20, 2007 3:51 PM | 0 CommentsChicago, IL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A bus traveling in Clearfield, Pennsylvania early Sunday morning veered off the road and crashed, killing two people and injuring thirty-one other passengers. It is not known at this time what caused the bus to exit and re-enter the road, but eventually it ended up on its side. Several of the passengers that survived were transferred to nearby hospitals in serious condition.This tragic bus...

• Teacher Drags Student Down Hall by His Shirt

  Jamie G. Goldstein | May 17, 2007 5:15 PM | 1 CommentChicago, IL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Douglas Tracia, a substitute teacher, pulled a seven year old boy in the first grade at a Lawrence, Massachusetts school down the hallway by his shirt. Tracia apparently went after the boy who left the room after he was involved in an altercation with another student.The boy's mother, Lina Tejada went to the police after the school tried to persuade her not to speak to the authorities. ...

• Falling Debris Injures Chicago Pedestrian

  Jamie G. Goldstein | April 06, 2007 12:09 PM | 0 CommentsChicago, IL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  The cold weather in Chicago has brought high wind gusts which caused injuries to a pedestrian in downtown Chicago on Wednesday. The injured man was walking near Dearborn Street and Hubbard Street when winds caused a two-by-four to tumble from a construction site and strike the man. The man was reported in stable condition.There are no additional details at this time about who owned the...

• Child Found With Serious Head Trauma

  Jamie G. Goldstein | March 14, 2007 10:59 AM | 0 CommentsChicago, IL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  A five year old girl was found with serious head trauma at her home in unincorporated Maine Township last evening. The girl was taken to Lutheran General Hospital. She was found by police at her house, but there is no information on why the police came to the home in the first place or how the little girl was injured.There is an investigation currently pending regarding the girls head injury. ...

• Metra Train Accident Injure Seven

  Jamie G. Goldstein | March 09, 2007 8:00 AM | 0 CommentsChicago, IL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Early Thursday morning a Union Pacfic Freight train was involved in an accident with a Metra train. The two trains were near the downtown Chicago train station when the Union Pacific train backed into the Metra train. The Metra train was not moving at the time of the accident.As a result of the accident the first passenger car on the Metra train derailed but it did not fall over. The train...

• Dog Attacks Child in Chicago

  Jamie G. Goldstein | February 21, 2007 4:45 PM | 0 CommentsChicago, IL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  A five year old girl waiting for the school bus this morning was attacked by a pit bull. She was taken to Holy Cross Hospital after the incident. The police then began a search and were able to track the pit bull down. They found the dog covered in the girl's blood.The 5 year old suffered various injuries including bites to her face and her body, a gash in her head and her hair had been...