According to data available from the Illinois Department of Transportation, we can see that car accident are not uncommon across the state. During the latest reporting year, there were 311,679 total traffic collisions across the entire state of Illinois. These incidents led to 1,090 total traffic crash fatalities and more than 93,000 total injuries.
The Illinois DOT reports that approximately 12,000 of the injuries reported or considered “A-injuries,” meaning that they were incapacitating (injuries that prevent an injured person from walking, driving, or normally continuing the activities they were capable of performing before the injury occurred).