Transportation Accidents

A 20-year-old male electrician sustained fractures to the face and his right leg which required surgery when the vehicle in which he was traveling struck a tractor trailer as it negligently exited a gas station.

A 67-year-old married man killed when a speeding, overweight semi-tractor trailer rig strikes his vehicle.

Truck rear-ends car with a 71-year-old driver, killing him.

Truck loses control and strikes car, killing young mother of two in Indiana.

Off-duty Prospect Heights police officer on a motorcycle is sideswiped by an off-duty Chicago police officer on Interstate 90/94 as she attempts to enter local lanes from the express lane; officer on motorcycle suffers broken leg and other injuries requiring missing two months of work.

A mother and her two children involved in a devastating truck-car collision on Interstate 90 near Rockford in 1999. After a month-long trial in the Cook County Circuit Court, Mr. Durkin received a $38.3 million verdict on behalf of the family in March, 2004 – the largest in the country that year involving a motor vehicle crash and was featured as one of the Top 100 Verdicts in the National Law Journal in 2005. Click here to read more about this case.

A 37-year-old woman suffered a broken leg when struck by a truck when crossing the street in Chicago.

42-year-old woman is killed when her car is struck by semi-tractor trailer rig making an improper right turn.

Six-year-old boy is struck and killed by a garbage truck while riding his bicycle. The truck driver did not see him because his vehicle was not equipped with proper side and back mirrors to spot children nearby.