Tragedy, fortunately, did not occur when a pickup truck rolled over on I-64 in Hampton on Monday morning. The accident led my colleague to think about how drivers and passengers are protected when pickups tip or flip. As Rick Shapiro reports in his latest post to the Virginia Beach Injuryboard, victims of rollover accidents cannot…
Kenneth Shaw was driving his 2006 Ford Mustang convertible when he apparently lost control of the vehicle, veered into oncoming traffic and collided with a 2003 Dodge Ram on Bonney Road in Virginia Beach, Virginia (VA). Mr. Shaw died at the scene, according to The Virginian-Pilot. He was only 46 years old. My deepest condolences go out…
Frances Wilson was a valuable member of the Chesapeake, Virginia community. She was killed by a wrong-way driver on I-264. This blog explores the ramifications of this tragic loss.
The pilot of a Mooney M-20 airplane went out for a flight and wound up crashing into the woods of Suffolk, Virginia (VA). Why? Because the plane’s FL-2 fuel gauge malfunctioned and did not alert the pilot that the plane ran out of gas, according to the Kathryn Report. There were two passengers on the plane along…
North Carolina (NC) has the dubious honor of being ranked in the top-15 states for railroad crossing collisions/accidents. There have been 69 car-rail crossing accidents in North Carolina (NC) this year. In addition, over the past decade, there have been more than 30,000 railroad crossing accidents and more than 3,600 train accident deaths. Sixty-four percent of all railroad wrecks occurred in…