In his latest post to our firm’s Virginia Trucking Accident Attorney Blog, my colleague Rick Shapiro reports that five people lost their lives and 10 others went to the hospital with injuries when the driver of a tractor-trailer plowed his big rig into the victims’ stopped cars on I-26 near Fletcher, North Carolina (NC). Considering…
A father is suing the West Virginia Department of Transportation for wrongful death after his son was killed in a rear-end car accident involving a WVDOT employee and a WVDOT vehicle.
The driver of a truck reportedly fell asleep while heading south on Route 94 in Kanawha County, West Virginia (WV). This led to the truck slamming head-on into a car. The truck driver was not hurt but the person in the car was taken to the hospital, according to WSAZ.com. We do not know the…
It’s scary to think that at times the only thing separating you and your family from certain tragedy is a painted solid double line or a grassy median. You have to trust that just at the moment a car passes you in the opposite direction that the driver won’t lean over and change the radio…
Once again Norfolk Southern (NS)Rail Road Corp. is in the news because of on the job injuries. Two contract railroad workers were seriously injured Sunday in a railroad accident, trying to contain a rail car toxic chemical leak in Roanoke Virginia (VA). The worst part was that they weren’t wearing any protective equipment, a Norfolk…