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18 Jun 2013, 3:25 pm
At about 7:20 a.m. on Monday, June 17, a seven-vehicle collision on Interstate 15 injured seven people in San Diego. The accident, which involved a semi truck, occurred on the northbound side of the freeway south of Miramar Road. Emergency responders transported seven people to area hospitals. Authorities are investigating the crash.
“Under California law, those who have been injured in a traffic accident may file civil claims against the driver at-fault for the crash in order to be… [read post]
18 Jun 2013, 1:13 pm
Last year, 23-year-old Timmy Ngoc Nguyen hit a bicyclist and his young daughter who was along for the ride in a trailer attached to the bike. Now, the Gonzaga student, who is studying law, will spend one year in prison. Nguyen pleaded guilty to hit-and-run assault. He was also ordered to pay over $37,000 in restitution. The young girl suffered from a fractured wrist and skull, but has recovered since the accident occurred.
With so many bicyclists sharing the road with us, it is important that we… [read post]
18 Jun 2013, 12:50 pm
While drunk drivers aren’t necessarily known for their intelligence, we may have found a new low in the world of impaired driving in the form of 26-year-old Omar Medina. Not only is Medina a repeat drunk driving offender, he may be the new spokesperson of downright awful life choices. Medina was arrested after police were alerted of a suspected drunk driver in Kent. The person who called in to report Medina noted that he had been driving erratically and then urinated in the parking lot of a… [read post]
18 Jun 2013, 12:34 pm
At about 4:35 p.m. on Monday, June 17, 48-year-old Fernando Lopez, 53-year-old David Becker, and 59-year-old Maryann Looram were injured in a crash with a wrong-way driver in Agua Dulce. While traveling southbound on the northbound 14 Freeway in a white Dodge pickup truck, 54-year-old Rick Allen Walker collided head-on with another vehicle at Vasquez Rocks, triggering a chain-reaction accident involving nine vehicles. Thirteen people suffered trauma in the accident. Emergency responders airlifted… [read post]
18 Jun 2013, 12:18 pm
Kids are by far the most precious cargo that we transport in our vehicles. A woman was driving through the Central Distric in Seattle when she rammed her blue Honda into a light pole. The two passengers in her car, a 7-year-old girl and a second child whose age has not yet been released, were both injured and taken to the hospital. The 7-year-old suffered life-threatening injuries. The second child, who was in a car seat, was not severely injured. The driver herself was not injured whatsoever. It… [read post]
18 Jun 2013, 12:16 pm
Thomaston resident, Ralph William Moore, Jr., was killed in an early morning car accident on Highway 36 Monday. As the driver who hit Mr. Moore faces vehicular homicide charges, investigators are questioning whether distraction or impairment may have been factors in the fatal crash.
According to Georgia State Patrol, Mr. Moore was traveling Eastbound on Hwy. 36 around 6:48am Monday when Tracey Jones attempted to pull out of a private driveway onto Barnesville Highway. Ms. Jones, apparently failing… [read post]
18 Jun 2013, 11:56 am
When Miami DJ Ervens Prudent got behind the wheel of his car in the early hours of Sunday morning, he was drunk and about to kill two innocent people while seriously injuring himself. He was attempting to enter the town I live and work in, Coral Gables--attempting to cross one of our most traveled crossroads, the intersection of 8th Street and Douglas.
He did not make it; instead, he plowed his car into the rear end of another car innocently stopped at the light, killing both its driver and… [read post]
18 Jun 2013, 11:07 am
Motorcycle accident lawyers at Pintas & Mullins point to a recent debate in upstate New York surrounding the death of a high school motorcyclist. The teen was killed in a crash after fleeing from a routine police traffic stop.
The Clarence High School senior was traveling at more than 100 miles per hour when he crashed, causing community members to question why officers were pursuing a motorcycle going that fast in the first place. Some highlight a Cattaraugus County crash in 1992 that killed… [read post]
18 Jun 2013, 10:25 am
Late on Monday night in Scottsdale, AZ, a 10-year-old boy was killed in a single-car accident, when the minivan he was in crashed into a light pole beside the highway.
The crash occurred at around 11 p.m. in north Scottsdale, on the westbound lanes of the Loop 101 Pima Freeway.
According to Arizona Department of Public Safety spokesman, Bart Graves, 45-year-old Kathy Pena Frias was traveling in a minivan on the 101 when, just past Hayden Road, a 26-year-old man sitting in the front passenger seat… [read post]
18 Jun 2013, 10:25 am
At about 6:10 a.m. on Monday, June 17, 23-year-old motorcyclist Frank Aldana Escalante, of Lakewood, and 65-year-old motorist Marianne Krone, of La Palma, were killed in a collision in Long Beach. A California Highway Patrol officer briefly pursued Escalante after observing him riding at speeds in excess of 100 mph on the 605 Freeway but ceased to chase him after he exited on Spring Street. Escalante continued riding to the intersection of Wardlow Road and Norwalk Boulevard, where he struck the… [read post]
18 Jun 2013, 8:39 am
The nation hooted with laughter when James May strapped a colander to his head and biked the length of Vietnam. The Top Gear presenter could have hurtled across the country sporting a pair of comedy underpants decorated with Jeremy Clarkson’s craggy features for all anyone cared. Developing countries have better things to do than fret [...]The post The Socking Truth: This is why you must wear a helmet appeared first on Watermans Solicitors. [read post]
18 Jun 2013, 7:49 am
There was a fatal vehicle accident in Old Mill Creek, Illinois on Sunday afternoon, June 16.
Details on the accident and its causes appear limited.
However, according to a June 17 Lake County News-Sun article titled “Waukegan man dies in crash in Old Mill Creek,” the accident involved the death of a man who was a passenger in a pickup truck that was involved in an accident on Route 45, north of Grass Lake Road.
The man has been identified as James Jenelewicz, 42, of… [read post]
18 Jun 2013, 7:14 am
Samantha Schaub, 21, of Indianapolis Indiana was headed north on Monday, June 17, 2013 when her 1997 Ford Explorer suddenly crossed the median and crashed into a Jeep which was headed south on I-79 near Morgantown, WV. Schaub was removed from her burning car by a passerby, but was found dead at the scene.
Five others, including three children, were injured in the southbound vehicle, a 2006 Jeep, in the crash that occurred at about 12:45 p.m. in the southbound lanes of I-79 near the Westover,… [read post]
18 Jun 2013, 4:24 am
California, Florida and Nevada pass laws allowing testing of driverless cars, Michigan is not far behind
Driverless cars may sound like something out of the Jetsons. But believe it or not, these automated, self-driving vehicles are here. Right now.
Google has a self driving car, and several other automakers have been working on prototypes of driverless cars for years.
Last year, driverless cars were approved in California by Governor Jerry Brown. Gov. Brown actually drove to the Google… [read post]
18 Jun 2013, 4:13 am
A state bill that would suspend the licenses of teens and other new drivers caught texting behind the wheel has gained a groundswell of support, most recently passing the state senate in its likely bid to become law.
Having already gained approval from the assembly, the measure now goes to the desk of Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
Our Long Island car accident lawyers know of no other state in the country where such a measure has been implemented. S5656-2013 targets teens who commit distracted driving… [read post]
18 Jun 2013, 2:33 am
As we have discussed in previous blog posts, distracted driving is an increasing danger to drivers and other motorists sharing the road. The few seconds it can take to check your cellphone for a text, glance at the headlines, or read an email, is enough time to cause a serious or fatal accident. This summer, drivers should be especially careful of the dangers of distracted driving and red-light intersection collisions.
Rear-end collisions often occur when a distracted driver fails to react to… [read post]
17 Jun 2013, 6:23 pm
Jeffrey Hirt and James Morin were in a Coconut Creek, Florida collision on Saturday that ended with Hirt dead, sources indicate. Police are currently conducting an investigation to determine the exact cause of the accident and have not said whether charges are expected. It is unclear whether Hirt's survivors will file for damages.
According to reports, Hirt, 47, works as an auto body mechanic at Sterling Autobody in Pompano Beach. Sources say Hirt was born in Blauvelt, New York and moved to South… [read post]
17 Jun 2013, 5:42 pm
I was in court yesterday and it was such a wonderful experience for my clients -- thanks to County Court at Law #1 Judge Don Pierson -- that I wanted to thank him, and while I was at it, all of the other great jurists we are so lucky to have in Tarrant County.
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17 Jun 2013, 3:48 pm
In one of the worst local vehicle collision cases I can remember, a catastrophe unfolded late Saturday night when three Good Samaritans -- a mother and her daughter who lived in a house at the side of the collision site and a youth minister driving back to his church after his son had graduated from high school were killed, along with the driver of the stranded vehicle. Nine others were seriously injured. What a nightmare.
According to news media, just before midnight in the 1500 block of… [read post]
17 Jun 2013, 3:46 pm
A Spring Hill man died earlier this month after he was involved in a head-on crash with a school bus.
The crash happened June 3 at 2:21 p.m. on Elgin Boulevard, just east of Sterling Hill Boulevard.
According to the Florida Highway Patrol, the 63-year-old Spring Hill man was driving west on Elgin Boulevard when he failed to get past a curve in the roadway.
His 2001 Ford Mustang journeyed into the eastbound lane of Elgin Boulevard and crashed head-on with a Hernando County School District… [read post]