Trucking Accidents

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.

Drunken driver kills one person and injures three others in Sioux Falls.