In 2021, there were 180 people killed in Illinois truck wrecks, 48% more than ten years prior. Forty of these deaths took place in Cook County, the second-most-populous county in the United States and home to Chicago. The data shows that Cook County is, by far, the most dangerous area…
Commercial truck drivers and trucking companies must abide by stringent federal laws and regulations to help ensure motorist safety. When they fail to do so, drivers and motor carriers can be held liable for resulting accidents. If you sustained injuries in an Indiana truck accident, understanding how state and federal…
The number of fatalities from truck crashes in Kentucky more than doubled in the span of 10 years, according to a recent report. In 2012, 82 people died in wrecks involving large trucks in Kentucky. The number recorded in 2021 was 128. Like most U.S. states, Kentucky is seeing fatalities…
More than 200 people died in accidents involving large trucks in Ohio in 2021, recent data shows. This puts the state in fifth place for the most truck wreck fatalities in the United States, topped only by Texas, California, Florida and Georgia. Ohio’s population, 11.8 million people, makes it the…
INDIANAPOLIS, IND – With attorney Sidney Lewellen’s recent admission into the Iowa bar, Indianapolis-based law firm Craig, Kelley & Faultless LLC is now licensed to practice law in Iowa and five more states. Craig, Kelley & Faultless is proud to announce that Sidney, who holds licenses in Indiana and the…
Commercial truck drivers and trucking companies must abide by stringent federal laws and regulations to help ensure motorist safety. When they fail to do so, drivers and motor carriers can be held liable for resulting accidents. If you sustained injuries in an Indiana truck accident, understanding how state and federal…
More people are killed in large truck wrecks in St. Louis County than in any of the other 113 Missouri counties. That’s not a surprising fact, considering it is the state’s most populous county, home to the city of the same name. But it reinforces an important fact: Metropolitan areas…
In 2021, across the state of Indiana, 167 people lost their lives in crashes involving large trucks. That number was up 49% from the benchmark recorded 10 years earlier in 2012, according to the Institute for Safer Trucking. In a previous blog post, I discussed the nationwide increase in large…
Personal injury attorney Scott A. Faultless has been named recipient of the Indiana Trial Lawyers Association (ITLA) President’s Award for the third time. Faultless is a founding partner of Craig, Kelley & Faultless, an Indianapolis-based personal injury law firm specializing in commercial motor vehicle wrecks. This recent award is one…
Before Craig, Kelley & Faultless LLC was a nationally recognized law firm, before books were published and cases were won, it was an idea tossed between three coworkers. It was a dream no one knew they’d see come true. But they hoped. They believed. After all of the dreaming and…