A Suffolk, Virginia (VA), police pursuit on July 9, 2011, ended tragically with a fatal car accident, the Virginian-Pilot reported Sunday. The driver, Cornell A. Richardson, was pulled over for a traffic violation. When the police officer got out of his vehicle, Richardson sped off in his Toyota. The officer called in a description of the car…
In his latest post to our firm’s Norfolk Injuryboard blog site, my colleague Rick Shapiro reports that automakers are developing intelligent vehicle technology to warn drivers of impending accidents before they occur. Rick notes that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration plans to test out vehicle-to-vehicle communication devices in communities throughout the United States to…
Slips on snow or ice can be painful, but they are seldom fatal. Tragically, though, a slip on Interstate 64 overpass in early 2010 led to the death of pedestrian when he fell onto the roadway below. The family of Manuel Albert “Manny” Rubio, 40, a physicist at NASA Langley Research Center, is suing the…
It was a hot summer day, and a tired but happy family was on their way home from a military appreciation day at an amusement park. Joe Weschler, his young son Dalton and his wife Michelle were driving on Interstate 64 in Norfolk, Virginia (VA), when their brand new 2011 Chevy Traverse exploded into flames…
A new study finds the use of any cell phone, hands-free or bluetooth, can be distracting enough to cause a car crash. According to PCmag.com, the Governors Highway Safety Association combined a decade’s worth of findings about the causes of car accidents. Shockingly, distractions caused by cell phones accounted for between 15 and 25 percent of all accidents….