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A teenaged cheerleader was seriously injured in a Virginia Beach, VA, drinking and driving crash. The 18-year-old driver has been charged with DUI and illegal possession of alcohol following a crash on June 16, 2011, in which his car ended up hitting a tree alongside Revere Drive in the Salem Woods community of Virginia Beach, WAVY.com reported.
His passenger, who was a cheerleader at Salem High School, remains at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital because her injuries are so severe. Investigators said speed as well as alcohol was a factor in this crash. And neither the driver nor the passenger, were wearing a seat belt when the Buick slammed into a tree in the early hours of the morning.
Our experienced Virginia Beach-based personal injury attorneys reported on how end of school parties often fuel rates of teenage road deaths and injuries in June. Also, having represented victims of car, truck and motorcycle accidents for more than 25 years, I have seen some harrowing injury and death cases involving teen drivers who were drinking and driving or distracted drivers.
My colleagues and I have seen too many teens killed or injured in Virginia Beach, Norfolk, Portsmouth and surrounding Virginia cities. In fact, teenage car crashes are 10 times more likely to occur than from those involving middle aged drivers.
Although we all know that drinking alcohol and driving is wrong, fewer people are aware of the statistics which are deeply disturbing. More than 11,000 people are killed in drunk driving accidents every year in the United States, and one person dies in a drunk driving accident every 45 minutes. And the average person who is arrested for drunk driving has driven drunk almost 100 times without getting caught before they end up with a DUI conviction.
Sometimes it takes a tragedy and the needless loss of life for a drunken driver to be brought to justice. Earlier this year our Virginia personal injury attorneys reported on a Virginia Beach, VA, woman who was sentenced to five years in jail for killing a man and seriously injuring a woman in a car wreck in Virginia Beach.
We hope in this case this young woman whose life is ahead of her does not become another statistic of this worrying epidemic on our roads.
DM
About the Editors: Shapiro, Lewis & Appleton is a Virginia Beach, VA-based injury law firm whose attorneys focus on personal injury and accident law and we have handled thousands of car accident, truck wreck, and motorcycle crash cases. Check out our case results to see for yourself.
We've handled car accident cases throughout Virginia including Richmond, Fairfax, Alexandria, and the Hampton Roads region including Virginia Beach, Norfolk, Chesapeake, Hampton, Portsmouth, Newport News, and Suffolk.
Our primary office is in Virginia Beach at the intersection of Diamond Springs Road and Northampton Boulevard. We also have an office on Eaton Street in Hampton. All of our accident injury attorneys were raised in Virginia and have deep roots with the community.
Our Virginia injury law firm has been recognized as one of the best injury law firms in Virginia by U.S. News & World Report since 2010. Rick Shapiro and James Lewis have been listed on the National Million Dollar Advocates Forum since 2009 and included among the Best Lawyers in America since 2008. Rick and Jim were named Virginia Super Lawyers for Personal Injury Law since 2010, an honor fewer than 5 percent of lawyers receive. In addition, we were the first injury law firm in Virginia to join Primerus, a select group of highly ethical and respected law firms.
We also offer free special reports on distracted driving and the Best Guide to Car Accident Injuries in Virginia.
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