The Highway Patrol is investigating a one-vehicle wreck that required the driver to be airlifted from Onslow County, North Carolina (N.C.) to Pitt County Memorial Hospital in Greenville. Trooper J.L. Morton says 27-year-old Ruben Lopez Camacho ran a stop sign at the intersection of Francktown Rd. and Cow Horn Rd. in Richlands, North Carolina (N.C.)…
In his latest post to our firm’s Norfolk Injury Board, my colleague Randy Appleton notes that a rail safety and injury attorney in our office was recently interviewed by a reporter for WVEC, the local ABC TV affiliate, about the need for an automatic emergency braking system for the HRT Tide light-rail system in Norfolk,…
Decades of evidence that the narcotic painkiller propoxyphene caused irregular heartbeats in users that were so severe some people taking the medication died suddenly from heart attacks prompted the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to ask drug makers to pull their propoxyphene products from the market in November 2010. The leading manufacturer of the drug,…
Safeway is enhancing its efforts to ensure that pharmacy protocols are followed after a six-week pregnant woman was given the wrong medication at one of its stores. Mareena Silva was given a prescription for Methotrexate–a drug used to treat cancer–instead of the antibiotic ordered by her doctor at a Safeway in Fort Lupton, Colorado (CO)….
When you are riding a high powered motorcycle one mistake can prove to be deadly. Sadly this proved to be the case for James Douglas Rountree, 50 of Williamsburg (VA) who died on Sunday when his Harley-Davidson hit a tree in York County (VA), the Daily Press reported. State police said he was…