Spiros Law, P.C. Blog

Police of the District 8 Germantown Hills office of Secor have reported that a 16-year-old Eureka High School student was killed in a traffic accident Tuesday morning. The fatal accident occurred around 8:15 a.m. when the teenager was driving north on Woodford County Road 2000 east and turned in front of a semitrailer truck eastbound… Read More

Two Urbana women were involved in a single-vehicle crash early Monday morning. Following police investigation, the driver has been ticketed for driving under the influence. According to police reports, the driver was heading home at 3:15 a.m. when she swerved off the road, hitting a tree and a fence before coming to a stop. Both… Read More

The Illinois Supreme Court upheld an Appellate Court decision that the Provena Covenant Medical Center in Urbana did not provide enough free care to qualify for a charitable tax exemption on it’s property taxes. Illinois laws allow hospitals that provide free health care services to write off large amounts of property taxes in exchange for… Read More

A head-on collision early Tuesday morning on Interstate 57 sent three people to Carle Foundation Hospital in Urbana. Authorities have released few details about the accident, but it is known that the vehicle was a 1996 Toyota Camry and the driver was a 33-year old woman from Atwood.  The accident occurred as the vehicle was… Read More

Two women were injured in a collision north of Philo on Tuesday morning.  A 55-year old woman from Urbana and a 27-year old Homer woman were treated and released from the hospital following the accident. Authorities are still investigating the cause of the crash which occurred at around 7:30 a.m. Accidents can have a devastating… Read More

A 62-year-old man from Mt. Zion was killed early on Sunday morning when a car crashed through his bedroom wall. A 20-year-old man was allegedly fleeing police after an attempted traffic stop when his car crashed into the house. The victim’s wife sustained serious injuries and was rushed to a nearby hospital and later transferred… Read More

Six people were sent to the Iroquois Memorial Hospital on Monday following a series of accidents that occurred within minutes of each other on Illinois Route 1.  According to authorities, the accidents all happened within a span of five minutes at 7:25 on Monday morning. Officials believe that heavy fog in the area may have… Read More

Two people were transported to the Iroquois Memorial Hospital and a two-month old boy was pronounced dead after a rollover accident on Saturday. The accident occurred at 4:21 p.m. on I-57 in  Onarga Township when the driver of the SUV went off of the road and the vehicle overturned in the median. The boy was… Read More

On March 8, a 16-year-old girl died of injuries suffered in a car accident in New Lenox. The girl was riding in a Chevrolet Cavalier when the vehicle rolled through a stop sign and was struck by a Ford F-150. The girl and her friends were heading east on New Lenox road when they were… Read More

On I-64 in Franklin County, two semi-trucks collide killing a 3-year-old girl. The accident happened on the eastbound side of the highway, after there was already traffic from a previous accident. A 49-year-old woman was driving a white tractor-trailer when she failed to see that traffic ahead of her was stopped and she slammed into… Read More