Family members who have cared for an Illinois (IL) woman suffering from locked-in syndrome since 2002 have received a $12 million settlement from the hospital, clinic and anesthesiologist whose apparently inadequate response to a severe adverse reaction to a medication led to the brain injury. According to a legal summary of facts reported in the…
A two-vehicle crash near downtown Grundy, Virginia (VA), left two passengers dead and both drivers seriously injured. The fatal wreck happened on the afternoon of August 6, 2017, but investigators had no immediate answers for why the tragedy occurred. Virginia State Police told reporters that the deadly head-on collision started with an eastbound…
A man and woman died in a motorcycle wreck recently around 11 p.m in Lincoln County, North Carolina.. James Austin Eaker, 46, of Vale, was driving his 1996 Harley-Davidson on Cat Square Road near Shoal Road, according to Sgt. B.E. Hipp with the N.C. Highway Patrol. Neither Eaker nor his passenger, Ashleigh Danielle Johnson, 26,…
The News & Record reports that a man on a motorcycle was struck and killed by the driver of a car in Greensboro, North Carolina this week. Police reported that the driver of the car was attempting to make a left turn onto an on-ramp for Interstate 40, she hit the victim on his motorcycle; the…
A hit-and-run collision involving a tractor-trailer left a man dead in Rockbridge County, Virginia (VA), in the early morning hours of August 4, 2017. The fatal pedestrian crash happened near mile marker 205 on northbound I-81, which is close to the exit for State Route 606 and the town of Raphine. A Virginia…