According to Illinois State Police, Enrique Lopez, 32, was waiting on the shoulder of the I-55 Expressway for a tow truck on Thursday night when he was struck by a pickup truck. The truck, described by witnesses as a white pickup with a blue driver’s door left the scene of…
A Chicago man involved in a traffic accident on Route 41 in Lake Bluff was charged with felony DUI after he allegedly admitted to drinking a large amount of tequila. Police arrived on scene after a call from a driver reporting that a car was swerving and had struck his…
Eric T. Maschmeier, 20, was paroled a little over a year ago for a six-year prison term for a botched armed robbery attempt. According to the Illinois Department of Corrections website, he was released from prison on January 13, 2010. On February 9th of this year, Masschmeier was arrested on…
Elvis Hernandez, 28, was pronounced dead last week at Weiss Memorial Hospital in Chicago after being hospitalized for over a year resulting form a hit-and-run DUI crash in west suburban Aurora. Hernandez was the passenger of a SUV being driven by his friend David Solis, 28, when the vehicle crashed…
Roel Valle, Lynwood Village Clerk, has been charged with reckless homicide and driving under the influence after a crash that resulted in the death of a Chicago woman. Melika LIttle, 32, mother of four children, was killed in the crash after Valle allegedly drove his village-owned vehicle the wrong direction…
Cecil R. Conner Jr., 22, is charged with the several counts of aggravated drunk driving for a crash that killed his girlfriend’s 5-year-old son. However, his defense attorney is blaming the Chicago Heights police officer who gave him the keys to the car and allowed him to drive to the…
A 16-year-old from Naperville was charged with Driving Under the Influence of Drugs, failure to yield to oncoming traffic to avoid and accident, operating an unsafe motor vehicle, and several graduated driver’s license violations. A 15-year-old boy from Lisle had to be airlifted to Children’s Memorial Hospital after the accident…
Mayor Daley chose ex-CTA vice-president of construction, Pat Harney, to preside over the city’s entire fleet. Harney, was forced out of his $98K a year job with the CTA after his CTA-owned vehicle rear-ended another vehicle. Harney refused a breath test and was charged with driving under the influence and…
20 year old, Francisco Campos, was charged with aggravated DUI resulting in an accidental death, Chicago police said. Campos was driving a 2003 Ford Explorer SUV that allegedly sped through a stop sign around two in the morning and struck another vehicle driven by Bahara Echmail. Campos’ SUV struck two…
Chicago Alderman Sharon Dixon (24th) is suing three Chicago police officers for her DUI arrest in 2009. The arrest took place on January 20, 2009, the same day as President Obama’s inauguration. Dixon claims she drank a couple of glasses of wine at a friend’s house in Evanston and was…