The State’s trend towards making a concerted effort to improve transportation safety continued with a move by Governor Quinn that went largely under the radar. The announced $21 million grant has the outward goals of trying to improve pedestrian safety in school zones, but it looks as though some of the proposed uses may have positive residual…
As an article from the Chicago Tribune illustrated, many prominent auto makers have been in the process of issuing safety recalls in regards to side airbag components that don’t deploy as they should following a crash. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is looking into the matter even further, after asking component maker Autoliv Inc. to…
There have been proposed ideas that have worked their way through the legislature to improve safety for drivers on the road. Take the bitter dispute over the signed law permitting the City of Chicago to install speeding cameras, for instance. As discussed in the past, many attempted to spin this as nothing more than a…
We were pleased to hear word of a Cook County verdict in which the family of an accident victim killed after she was struck by a semi-truck in the middle of an Indiana Highway. A jury awarded $4.25 million dollars to the family of a young woman that was struck and killed by a truck…
We’ve spent time examining several potential new auto safety laws that took shape throughout last year. While most, if not all, of these are still in their initial phases, some of them (such as Chicago’s speeding camera proposal) made headlines. One that was flying a bit under the radar was a proposal that would raise the age…
Chicago “true” weather is back again and makes for very difficult driving conditions. Be careful! If someone has rear-ended you or slid into you and you believe they were not careful, contact us here immediately to assess the situation. We take calls and contact 24/7/365. And a reminder to all that not only in “good…
In the past we’ve discussed proposed auto safety measures, such as Chicago’s proposed speeding camera bill, which would post cameras in designated “safety zones,” track speeding cars and issue automated tickets similar to those by red light cameras. An earlier report, however, indicates that this particular proposal may wind up dying on the vine for one…
New traffic safety laws went into effect last year that had lawmakers turning their focus to those proposals. Many of those proposed regulations were discussed at a meeting of the Secretary of State’s Advisory Committee on Traffic Safety, which outlined the general direction that the legislature sought to take. While we previously reported on several of these,…
Yesterday, we discussed early reports of the landmark proposed settlement of a class action brought against Toyota stemming from the widely-reported 2010 alleged defect that caused vehicles to unexpectedly accelerate. The problem with the early reports, however, is that some of them painted the story with too broad of strokes, and now, as subsequent articles suggest, many…
As multiple news outlets are reporting, Toyota has agreed, in principal, to settle a class action lawsuit in California stemming from the highly-publicized dispute that arose in early 2010 after a number of complaints were logged that the auto giant’s vehicles were accelerating unintendedly. It should be noted that there have been several different “groups” of litigation that…