A commuter train struck and killed a man Wednesday in Wheaton, Illinois. Authorities responded to the accident around 7 p.m. near Manchester Road and Birch Drive. The DuPage County Coroner pronounced the 37-year-old victim dead at the scene of the accident. The Metra Train was traveling west of downtown Wheaton on Union Pacific tracks….
Wednesday afternoon in Lincoln County, Missouri, a man was killed following a head-on crash. 44-year-old Richard Gannon was driving his vehicle on Route E when he attempted to pass another car, and struck another head-on. The accident happened just west of Highway 61, and Gannon died at the hospital following the accident. 46-year-old, Jewel…
Monday evening in Washington Park, Illinois a couple died in a very tragic and fiery crash. Furthermore, 68-year-old, Ervin Hufling, and his 63-year-old wife, Mary were killed when their RV blew a tire near mile marker 4 on Interstate 64. The RV was hauling another vehicle at the time of the accident, and when…
Sadly on Thursday another life was lost due to a fatal train accident. This time, a man tried to outrun a train, and unfortunately lost. The victim was 38-year-old, Jonathan Schrage, and was killed when a train struck his truck near Route 143 in Madison, Illinois. Although the warning lights were flashing, and the…
A 23-year-old man, who caused a fatal crash in November of 2014, is now facing numerous charges for driving under the influence and driving on without a valid driver’s license. The accident occurred in St. Charles, Illinois when the driver admitted to the responding authorities that he had snorted heroin just before operating his…
In a joint effort, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, The Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Missouri Medicaid Fraud Control Unit has shut down Lawrence B. Iken, DPM, LLC. For healthcare fraud. Lawrence B. Iken, DPM, has plead guilty to charges including submission of false documents, reimbursement claims. From 2006 through…
Officials for the Occupational Health and Safety Administration are investigating an accident that claimed the life of one worker Wednesday morning. The workplace accident occurred at an Acme Industrial Plant in Elk Grove Village, Illinois. The employee was a 50-year-old man who became lodged in a machine that is used to cut and shape…
Imagine being inside of a store, and while waiting to pay, seeing a car come crashing through the front of the building. Sunday in Skokie, Illinois that’s exactly what happened at a local 7-11 store located on West Church Street. . For unknown reasons a driver of a vehicle accelerated, and as a result…
Illinois lawmakers are attempting to create more laws regarding drunken driving. The Illinois House of Representatives will soon be voting on adding the two bills into legislation. If passed, one of the bills would require individuals, who have been convicted two or more times of DUI, to have a device installed on their vehicle…
The train accident in Galena last month has caused Federal officials to insist that tank cars be replaced on trains. They believe by replacing the tank cars to ones more fire resistant that in the case of a derailment, the severity of an accident would decrease. The tanks would be less likely to explode…