Police Officer Receives Head Trauma in Virginia Hit-and-run Accident
A Virginia Beach woman is under arrest after she allegedly left the scene of a drunk driving accident that left a police officer with serious head trauma.
A Virginia Beach woman is under arrest after she allegedly left the scene of a drunk driving accident that left a police officer with serious head trauma.
CSX Transportation has received an order from the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration to pay a former dispatcher and trackman a total of $100,000 in compensatory and punitive damages for violating his whistleblower rights under the Federal Railroad Safety Act, or FRSA. Fourth-fifths, or fully $80,000, of the award represents punishment against the rail…
Bad roads, heavy traffic and at least a few drivers’ inattention appear to have combined to cause a major accident in Virginia Beach, VA, during morning rush hour on April 24, 2012. According to WAVY-TV 10, nine vehicles eventually became involved in the chain-reaction crash on Indian River Road near an on-ramp to I-64. Police…
In his latest post to our firm’s Railroad Accident/FELA Lawyer Blog my colleague Rick Shapiro highlights findings from a federal investigation into a train collision that left an engineer and conductor dead. Investigators concluded that better scheduling and adoption of positive train control could keep such accidents from occurring. To read more, click over to…
It is such a dangerous thing to do to have to get out of your car or truck on the side of a busy road. It happens often, whether a car breaks down, a flat tire has to be fixed or something falls out of the back of a pick-up truck that needs to be…