Gainsberg Injury and Accident Lawyers

Chicago’s South Side can be busy and congested, but that doesn’t mean fatal car accidents are inevitable. Yet fatalities and serious injuries occur in neighborhoods such as South Shore, Chatham, Englewood, and Hyde Park. These fatalities can be preventable and caused by factors such as speeding, high-risk intersections, confusing traffic patterns, and aging infrastructure.

Truck accidents are among the most devastating in the Chicago area and cost too many people their lives. Thousands of tractor-trailers weighing up to 80,000 pounds barrel down Interstates 55, 90, 94, and 294, the Dan Ryan Expressway, and other corridors daily, and the results can be catastrophic.

Families’ legal options after fatal truck crashes in Chicago include wron...

Physics helps explain the connection between high-speed car accidents in Chicago and catastrophic injuries. As a vehicle’s speed increases, so does the crash energy, with kinetic energy increasing with the square of speed.

As the city’s Department of Transportation indicates, vehicle speed is the top factor deciding if a crash occurs and how severe the injuries are. Pe...