Spiros Law, P.C. Blog

A single-vehicle accident in rural Douglas County, Illinois, has left two teenagers injured. The accident, which occurred late in the afternoon on Tuesday, March 26th, involved a sixteen-year-old boy and a sixteen-year-old girl whose vehicle crashed into a tree at 675 N. County Road 1760 E. Both teens were transported to Carle Foundation Hospital in… Read More

A four-vehicle collision that occurred along 11th and Jefferson Streets led to the arrest of  a Springfield woman last Thursday afternoon. Springfield police reports indicate that 36-year-old Lakisha Green, who was one of the four drivers involved in the incident, was charged for driving with a suspended license and cited for not reducing speed. She was arrested by… Read More

After a dramatic increase in the number of deaths at the Champaign County Nursing Home from December through February, the board of directors and managers intend to investigate to determine whether there is a cause for this spike, it is natural, or it is an error. Although the board received two different sets of numbers,… Read More

57-year-old Bobby Cannon was hospitalized at Carle Hospital in Urbana after his semi-truck turned over Wednesday morning at 9 a.m., according to Illinois State Police at Pesotum. Cannon was driving on the ramp between westbound I-74 and southbound I-57 when the truck accident occurred after his rig turned over into a ditch and trapped him… Read More

A vehicle crashed through the front doors of a Yorkville Shell station at the corner of routes 47 and 34 around lunchtime on Monday, Feb. 18. Yorkville Deputy Chief of Police Larry Hilt said the driver was an elderly man who claimed the accelerator of the car got stuck. The 76-year-old driver of the vehicle… Read More

Richard H. Reinke, 58, has been issued multiple citations by the Frankfort Police Department on suspicion of driving while intoxicated and failing to reduce his speed to avoid an accident. Reinke caused a 3-car accident on January 12, 2013. His blood alcohol content (BAC) was measured at 0.08% at the time police arrived. Reports say… Read More

Late last year, 92-year-old Catherine McCann, a two-year resident of the Lutheran Home for the Aged in Arlington Heights, was discovered to have maggot infestation in her ear. McCann was, unfortunately, unable to alert nursing home caregivers to her discomfort, as she is unable to speak and has alzheimer’s. Fortunately, nursing home staff members were… Read More

Recently, an Illinois coroner ruled that the death of a highway worker earlier this year on October 3rd was, in fact, accidental. Dennis Goebel of Dorsey, Illinois, was working on repairing culverts in Meadowbrook, near St. Louis, when he was backed over by a dump truck. None of his co-workers saw the incident take place,… Read More

Wednesday afternoon, a Good Samaritan was killed while attempting to help a man that was fatally struck in a pedestrian accident on Interstate 57. According to officials with Illinois State Police,  a 58-year-old Tennessee man was traveling northbound on I-57 near mile marker 277 when the tire came off of his car. The man then… Read More

Friday afternoon, a semitrailer chain-reaction accident took place on Interstate 57 and claimed the life of one man. According to a police report, the trucking accident occurred when the 53-year-old driver of a flat bed tractor trailer lost control of his vehicle when attempting to slow down for stopped traffic. He then struck a four-door… Read More