A tractor-trailer driver has been charged with transporting an unsecured load after steel rods falling from his rig caused a fatal motorcycle crash on I-64 in Huntington, West Virginia (WV), on June 28, 2014. The accident occurred on the interstate overpass above West 17th Street. The man driving the motorcycle sustained critical injuries, and the…
In Hurricane, West Virginia, a father is fighting to seek justice against CSX, the City of Hurricane, and the Putnam County Board of Education for his son’s tragic death. The wrongful death lawsuit was filed in 2012 and is back in Putnam Circuit Court. A hearing is set for 2015. On January 29, 2012,…
A federal court jury in Maine recently decided in favor of a former Springfield Terminal Railways rail yard supervisor who claimed the railroad had illegally terminated his employment after he made official complaints about unsafe working conditions and practices. The incident that prompted the plaintiff’s actions involved a diesel fuel spill that another employee with…
Monica Vuleka Mayer is the reigning Miss North Carolina Teen America, and if you think that means she’s just another pretty face, think again. This smart, driven, young woman also happens to suffer from a brain injury, and she’s launched a national campaign to raise money for the Brain Injury Association of America (BIAA). Ms….
A rear-end collision between two tractor-trailers in Culpeper, Virginia (VA), on the morning of July 2, 2014, left one trucker dead and the other truck operator with injuries that required hospital treatment. A person behind the wheel of a car that had been stopped at a traffic light to make a turn at the intersection…