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Memorial Day Weekend is the official beginning of summer!  Since it has been a long winter in Missouri, we are all excited to get summer underway.  Compared to other holidays,  Memorial Day weekend traditionally has a higher number of alcohol related car accident, second to Fourth of July holiday.  The National Safety Council says that …

An auto accident near Vandalia, Illinois on Interstate 70 has claimed the lives of five men and injured six other men.  According to reports, a church van from California was headed to Philadelphia when the driver lost control of the van and the van went into a median and flipped over several times.  An official …

Yesterday, a one year old little girl was killed in East St. Louis when a car ran over her while she was playing in her grandmother’s yard.  Apparently, two young boys, ages 11 & 12 were listening to music in their mother’s car when one of them accidentally put the car into gear which set …

A large insurance company recently released that Missouri came in ranking at #14 for dog bite claims. What is just an interesting is that Illinois came in Number 2.  Ranking high in this category is not a good thing.  They stated that Illinois came in with 337 claims totally $9 million.  The number of claims …

A 49 year old woman is currently facing sentencing in a drunk driving accident that resulted in the death of her granddaughter.   It’s a shocking sentence to read. The accident occurred on July 4, 2011 on Interstate 55 at the Loughborough Avenue exit.  According to prosecutor Jennifer Joyce, the grandmother drove from Arnold to St. Louis  …

How are motorcycle claims different from car accident claims? Pre-conceived ideas of potential jury members are the biggest challenges in a motorcycle claim.  When taking a motorcycle accident case to trial, the biggest challenge is how potential jury members feel about motorcycle riding in general.  All of us use cars every day and many people think …

An early morning tractor-trailer crash involving a sport-utility vehicle and a third vehicle took more than 11 hours to clear from southbound Interstate 270 near Highway 370 in north St. Louis on March 25, 2013.  The SUV crashed into a center median thus causing a chain reaction. The March 25 accident was one of the …

A semi-truck caught fire in an I-90/Route 20 accident in Boone County, Illinois Wednesday morning. In a construction zone on Interstate 90, a truck driver veered to the left while traveling eastbound. The truck struck the center median and caught fire. A pick-up truck that was traveling westbound on Interstate 90 was hit by diesel …

May 1 is the first day of Missouri Motorcycle Awareness Month!  Motorcycle awareness month is appropriately timed as the spring and summer months bring more and more motorcyclists onto the highways and interstates.  Motorcyclists enjoy the same rights to the roadway as all other vehicle drivers and we ask that all drivers keep a look out …

A 46 year old Shelbyville, Missouri man was killed in a semi-truck accident on U.S .20 near Jackson, Nebraska yesterday morning.  The man was driving a minivan when he crossed a center line and struck the backend of a semi-truck before colliding with a garbage truck according to a police report. According to the Quincy …