Two crashes during the third week of April 2021 saw residents of Norfolk and Chesapeake join a sad trend toward growing numbers of pedestrian deaths in Virginia and across the United States. On April 20, a driver struck and killed a 6-year-old girl in the 3800 block of Larkin Street in Norfolk’s Coleman Place neighborhood….
With the popularity of Uber, Lyft, and several other rideshare companies on the rise, the number of rideshare accidents is also increasing. Like any other kind of automobile accidents, passengers of Ubers and Lyfts – as well as other motorists, bicyclists, and pedestrians – can suffer devastating injuries in the event of a crash. However,…
Our Virginia personal injury law firm offers the following information as a public service. Single-vehicle accidents involving animal darting across a highway do not provide grounds for lawsuits. At the same time, animals in the roadway can set the stage for rear-end collisions, sideswipes and head-on crashes. In the interest of keeping everyone safe, we share what…
My Virginia Beach-based personal injury and wrongful death law firm colleagues and I have been slowly updating the hundreds of blog posts, articles and case results on our website. One thing we’ve noticed is how so many posts repeat the same terms when describing what a negligent or reckless driver did to cause a crash….
“Motor vehicle-related injuries send more than 2.3 million people to hospital emergency departments every year.” The Centers for Disease Control and Prevent reports this on its website. Another webpage maintained by the CDC breaks out motor vehicle crashes into the following overlapping categories: Child passengers, Teen drivers, Older adult drivers, Seat belts and restraints, Impaired…