The parents of a three-year-old child who was killed by a lorry driver in Chicago as her parents were forced to move out of a cycle lane due to a utility company’s truck being parked there are suing the owners of both vehicles, as well as the city, for wrongful death.
Richard Burke, a partner at the law firm, said: “Multiple factors converged to make this an unsafe location and intersection on the day this happened. Finally, the city of Chicago is being sued for “wilful and wanton misconduct”, as the law firm’s senior partner Robert Clifford argued that the authority’s “concern for others” was missing when it allowed ComEd to drive and park its large and heavy vehicles in residential neighbourhoods.
>"Absolutely unacceptable": HGV driver blocks protected cycle lane... at dangerous junction where urgent safety works followed cyclist's death “People have to care. The city has to care. Corporations have to care. They all need to respect bicycle lanes and the bicyclists using them.”