A 47-year-old man was killed in a car-truck accident that occurred on East Side Highway in Crimora, Virginia (VA). The deadly crash occurred when the victim’s car collided with a pickup truck that suddenly attempted to make a turn off the highway. A passenger in the truck was also injured, but the at-fault pickup driver and…
Police suspect a medical emergency caused an elderly driver to lose consciousness behind the wheel of her car before she crossed into the path of oncoming traffic on U.S. 460 in Windsor, Virginia (VA), and hitting a pickup truck, another vehicle and a tractor-trailer. The woman lost her life, and the commercial truck driver went to the hospital…
A fatal SUV rollover accident on I-20 near the Clemson Road exit toward Columbia, South Carolina (SC), is being blamed on an as-yet-unidentified car driver who was speeding and made an abrupt lane just before the crash. According to The State, the woman driving the SUV lost control of her vehicle when she had to…
In his latest post to our Virginia law firm’s Norfolk Injuryboard blog site, my colleague Richard N. Shapiro presents detailed analysis showing how a defense contractor used the requirements and rules of binding arbitration for employee legal claims to deny family members of employees killed in Iraq fair compensation for their losses. To read more,…
In his latest post to our Virginia personal injury law firm’s Railroad Accident/FELA Lawyer Blog, my colleague reports on a three-train accident involving a rear-end collision, derailment and fire involving toxic substances. The wreck occurred near Valparaiso, Indiana (IN), on January 7, 2011, and two CSX employees sustained injuries requiring hospital treatment. Rick notes that…