A recent crash involving a semi-truck resulted in a chemical spill and a fire in northwest suburban Barrington. On March 7, at approximately 11:30 p.m., a pickup collided with a semi-truck at Route 14 and Hart Road. The semi burst into flames, and it took emergency responder over 30 minutes to extinguish the fire. The semi’s>> Read More

One person was killed in a fiery multi-vehicle collision on Monday July 25 on I-55, according to Illinois law enforcement. The crash occurred just before 11 a.m. when a tractor trailer transporting 40,000 pounds of frozen meat rear ended a stopped pickup truck. The force of the collision sent the pickup into a minivan, propelling>> Read More

Royal Truck and Equipment, a specialty vehicle manufacturer based in Pennsylvania, has designed self-driving road maintenance trucks that will be used on Florida roads later this year. These trucks will be equipped with crash bars and strobe lights, and are designed to serve as a barrier between highway construction workers and traffic. The crash trucks>> Read More

Large semi-trucks travel along almost all major highways across the country, and they are undoubtedly the largest vehicles on the road. Trucks are 20-30 times larger than most passenger cars and are much taller with a greater ground clearance. This fact leaves no surprise that most deaths in truck accidents are occupants in passenger vehicles.>> Read More

Commercial truck accidents have devastating consequences for everyone involved. The sheer size of these vehicles means that thousands of Americans are injured each year in big truck accidents and hundreds are killed. According to the Large Truck Crash Causation Study, the primary reason that big truck accidents occur is driver fatigue. The study, commissioned by>> Read More

Semi trucks: big, bold, intimidating, always in the way and dangerous. For some drivers, these might be some of the words they associate with such vehicles. The size might seem like a threat, but what some might not realize is that it isn’t necessarily the vehicle itself that may dangerous, but rather the person driving>> Read More

A firefighter from Hudson, Illinois, is dead after a trucker slammed into a roadside rescue operation last night. The Pantagraph Newspaper reports that the 39-year-old volunteer firefighter was responding to a multi-vehicle accident on Tuesday night when a big-rig driver lost control of his truck and slammed into the accident scene. McLean County Coroner Beth>> Read More

A fatal truck accident closed Interstate 80 this morning near Joliet. NBC Chicago reports that two semi-trucks collided on I-80 near Houbolt Road. One of the semi-trucks caught fire after the crash. Information on news reports is scarce, but at least two people were injured and treated at the scene. One man reportedly died in>> Read More

A double-decker Megabus drove into a concrete structure that was part of an I-55 overpass as the bus was en route to St. Louis, leaving one person dead and over thirty people injured. The Illinois bus accident happened in close proximity to the town of Litchfield, Il. Around 1:20 PM on Thursday afternoon. Reports have>> Read More

At least five people were injured after a Chicago Transit Authority bus and a car crashed in Brighton Park on Saturday. The accident happened around 10 a.m. At the intersection of 46th Street and Kedzie Avenue. A CTA spokeswoman said that the bus accident occurred when a car pulled out of a parking spot and>> Read More

A Southwest Suburban Worth man was pronounced dead on Monday night at? Alexian Brothers Medical Center following a trucking accident in Bensenville, Illinois. According to the Chicago Tribune, the man was performing a safety check of his rig at Vitran Express (651 Thorndale in Bensenville) when he became pinned between the door of his truck>> Read More

The most recent winter storm has resulted in a predictable increase in Chicago area car accidents. One of the most dramatic storm-related crashes happened this morning when a school bus slammed into an apartment building in Tinley Park. NBC Chicago is reporting that no children were on board during the 7 a.m. crash. It is>> Read More