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Chicago Cab Pedestrian Accident

A resident of Chicago is still in critical condition only days following a vehicle injury accident in which the man was dragged and hit by a taxi. This terrible hit-and-run collision took place on Friday, May 14, 2010, as reported by the Chicago Sun-Times.

Hit-and-Run Auto-Pedestrian Car Crash Accidents Merit a Stern Response

A recent Chicago Tribune story on a hit-and-run auto-pedestrian accident involving a Chicago-area teen driver and a teen victim was written with scant sense of proportion to the enormity and callousness of such events.
From the headline to the story, the Tribune’s sympathetic focus was on the teen driver, and the fact that her bail was set at a high $500,000, and her family did not have the means to pay, and Cook County jail is a “tough place” for a young girl, and how she’s an honor student who’s about to attend college, and how she may deserve to be released on her own recognizance.

Pedestrian Safety

The following is a guest blog courtesy of Ledger & Associates in California More and more pedestrians are involved in …

Chicago Program Designed to Catch Drivers Who Endanger Pedestrians

Last year the Chicago Police Department and the Chicago Department of Transportation began a new initiative designed to catch drivers …