Chicago Pace Bus Accident Lawyer

Experienced Pace Accident Lawyers Serving Chicago

Chicago’s Pace transit system operates buses in the suburbs of Chicago, in addition to certain smaller programs such as Vanpool and Paratransit. Its scale is, unsurprisingly, rather large:

• Over 700 buses
• Over 200 lines
• Operates in Cook, DuPage, Kane, Lake, McHenry, and Will counties
• Over 600 vans, over 350 Paratransit vehicles and dozens of community vehicles.

Accidents: The Dark Side

Generally speaking, the Pace system is safe. With all those passenger miles, however, the law of averages is bound to catch up once in awhile – and sometimes it does. Two or three people are killed and several hundred people are injured in Pace accidents in an average year. Once you become an accident victim, though, the statistics don’t matter anymore. You will need one of our skilled and knowledgeable Chicago Pace Accident Lawyers to fight for your rights.

Possible Types of Legal Action

Depending on the circumstances of the accident, you might file a claim against one or more of the following parties:

• The Chicago Regional Transportation Authority: if the accident can be attributed to a Pace driver or faulty bus maintenance. Special restrictions apply to such claims, however, because any compensation will come out of the pockets of taxpayers.
• The bus manufacturer: if the accident was caused by a defective bus component. In this case you would file a products liability lawsuit, which would not require you to prove fault.
• A third party: such as a pedestrian or another motorist who caused the accident. Most Pace bus accidents are attributable to another motorist rather than to Pace. As long as the other motorist was a private party not representing a government, this kind of claim would be handled like an ordinary personal injury claim and would likely be paid out by an auto insurance company.