- October 10, 2014

  “Red Bull gives you wings” – Consumers Claim False A lot of us have heard the Red Bull company advertising slogan, “it gives you wings,” which surrounds a media campaign based in extreme sports like mountain biking, BMX, motocross, windsurfing, base-jumping, snowboarding, skateboarding, wakeboarding, surfing, skating, and Formula 1 racing among others. As it…

- September 9, 2014

Distracted driving is an epidemic that shockingly receives little attention in our culture. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, cellphone use caused 23 percent of all car accidents in 2011, meaning distracted driving was involved in 1.3 million crashes that year. If that’s not shocking enough, the administration also reports approximately 27 percent…

- July 30, 2014

  Chicago Car Accidents Reckless lane changes are far too common on highways in the United States. We’ve all seen it happen: A driver realizes he or she is about to miss an exit and swerves across multiple lanes to reach it in time. There are many stretches of highway where a missed exit means…

- July 21, 2014

  Distracted Driving Accidents Illinois For the past decade, government agencies and local law enforcement have conducted countless campaigns against distracted driving. During that time, every state except one has enacted some sort of texting-while-driving ban, and news agencies have posted shocking articles detailing the horrific aftermath of distracted-driving accidents. Despite these facts, the problem…

- July 9, 2014

Fatal Bicycle Accident Last month, Su Ai Xie was riding her bike when a commercial van swerved and struck her. She fell to the ground and suffered fatal injuries, dying only a few minutes after the collision. Onlookers managed to record the van’s license plate number as the driver sped away. Police spent two hours…

- July 2, 2014

  Drugged Driving Fatalities Two years ago, Carly Rousso made a choice that changed the lives of a family forever. Rousso sat in a pharmacy parking lot and huffed a can of keyboard cleaner. Then, she decided to continue driving down the road to another store.

- June 12, 2014

  Truck Driver Fatigue We’ve all felt that stab of fear while passing a commercial truck on the highway. They are some of the most dangerous vehicles on the road by virtue of their weight and size alone. Couple that with a high prevalence of driver fatigue, and you have a recipe for disaster. According…

- June 4, 2014

  Illinois Hit and Run Accidents Hit-and-run accidents are a growing problem all across the nation, and they occur more often than you’d think. The AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety estimates that hit-and-run drivers cause 11 percent of all crashes in the United States. If the foundation’s numbers are correct, there were approximately 617,000 hit-and-run…

- May 23, 2014

In general, school buses are the safest vehicles for children to ride in to class, because of both their size and safety features. In fact, most of the people who die in school-bus crashes are drivers and passengers in other vehicles. However, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reports that approximately 19 children die in…

- May 8, 2014

What risks are you taking when you attend a music event, and do the performers or the venue have a responsibility to provide for your safety? Those are the questions raised by a recent personal-injury lawsuit in Chicago. Tia Butts, 20, attended an A$AP Rocky and Been Trill concert. She alleges that one of the…