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Semi-trucks fill our highways and interstates, and these large vehicles can pose risk to other drivers on the road. Due to the size and weight of these vehicles, they can cause an immense amount of devastation to themselves and other drivers on the road when involved in an accident. In fact, according to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety… Read More

A collision between a passenger vehicle and a garbage truck at 12:06 p.m. on Friday, November 16th, killed the driver of the smaller vehicle and sent four others to the hospital. Authorities report that the driver and all three passengers in the car were ejected from the vehicle in the collision. There has been no… Read More

The United States is one of the busiest countries in terms of road traffic. With nearly 264 million registered vehicles and 218 million registered drivers, our country’s roads are busy which amplifies the dangers of driving. Even though Illinois is full of rural areas with less traffic, there is still a high rate of motor… Read More

According to an Illinois police report, a crash occurred on Wednesday, October 17th on a rural road near the Douglas-Coles county line southwest of Hindsboro. The report details that a 43-year-old Mattoon man was driving an Illinois Department of Transportation utility truck south on Illinois 130 about a mile south of Illinois 133. He slowed… Read More

On October 11th around 4:00 pm, a school bus transporting six students was involved in a collision. The school bus was southbound on County Road 2000 E when it slowly rolled into the middle of the intersection and stopped there. While sitting in the intersection, it was struck on its passenger-side fender by an eastbound Ford… Read More

At Spiros Law, our every day is spent helping people out in their time of need. We care about the communities we live in, and we want to take part in improving them, which is why we have partnered with Adopt-A-Highway. The Illinois Adopt-A-Highway program is affiliated with the Illinois Department of Transportation and works… Read More

A multi-vehicle crash on Wednesday sent six people, including four children, to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries. The identities of those involved have not yet been released. The crash occurred north of Champaign around 3:42 PM. One vehicle was traveling south on Market Street when another vehicle, traveling east on Ford Harris Road, failed to… Read More

The Illinois Department of Transportation will be lowering the speed limit on I-74 from 70 mph to 60 mph in response to a traffic study. The study demonstrated that the crash rate, number of interchanges, and prevailing speed justified a need for a reduced speed limit. The change affects the area between Cunningham Avenue in… Read More

A crash on Illinois 1 Wednesday morning sent one Westville man to the hospital. State police investigating the crash report that around 11 AM on Wednesday, a pedestrian ran out onto Illinois 1 in front of a Dodge Ram pickup truck traveling north between Danville and Belgium, near Greenwood Avenue. The 60-year-old driver from Westville… Read More

A report by USA Today has found that the United States is the most dangerous country in the world to give birth in. 50,000 women are injured every year as a result of complications of childbirth, while another 700 die. The rate in other countries, such as the United Kingdom, is a third of ours.… Read More