Mid-air collision between planes occur rarely. But when such crashes happen, the results are often fatal. This was the sad reality when a Beechcraft BE-25 and a Piper PA-28 flew into each other over the town of Sumerduck, Virginia (VA), on Memorial Day 2012. Officials do not know why the two small, privately owned aircraft…
When a child’s life is taken by an accident, the pain and trauma can be unbearable. A fatal truck wreck in the Five Points area of Harrison County, West Virginia (WV), illustrated this sad reality. A 3-year-old boy who was camping in a tent in a rural, wooded area with another child and adults lost his…
The pilots of the privately owned planes both worked for federal agencies that oversee aviation.
An accident involving three motorcycles and a car on the Blue Ridge Parkway in Floyd Couty, Virginia (VA), claimed the life of one motorcyclist and injured three others just before the start of the 2012 Memorial Day weekend. The fatal head-on collision occurred on Shooting Creek Road. View Larger Map The car’s driver and one…
In a new post to our firm’s VA/NC Wrongful Death Lawyers blog, attorney Kevin Duffan reports on the settlement of a civil lawsuit stemming from a fatal crash in which a Jeep driver allegedly struck a jogger and fled the scene. Kevin notes that the agreement was reached despite the defendant driver being acquitted of…