Earlier this year, one of my Carolina wrongful death law firm colleagues highlighted the alarming, and growing, number of fatal wrong-way collisions on the interstates through and around Charlotte. Sadly, the early morning hours of March 25, 2018, saw two more names added to the list of drivers killed in head-on collisions on I-85 and…
A crash between a farm truck and a car in Isle of Wight County, Virginia (VA), killed the two occupants of the smaller vehicle. The deadly head-on collision happened on U.S. Route 460/Windsor Boulevard near the intersection with Yellowhammer Road. Virginia State Police responded to the wreck at around 2:15 pm on March…
According to state statistics, there has been almost 250 car crashes on Rockford Street (U.S. 601) in Mount Airy over the past four years. In addition to numerous victims injured, the accidents resulted in three fatalities. The North Carolina Department of Transportation says that the crash rate in this area is almost twice as high…
On Sept. 8, 2017, at approximately 4:30 in the afternoon, 39-year-old Erin Kaplan was driving her Audi station wagon on Evergreen Mills Road in Leesburg. In the vehicle with her were her son, two daughters, and her mother. As Ms. Kaplan was driving, her vehicle was suddenly slammed into by a 22,000-pound food truck when…
A chain-reaction crash at a car wash in Prince William County, Virginia (VA), left an employee who had been walking across the parking lot fatally injured. A customer also suffered non-life-threatening injuries when she moved to avoid one of the vehicles involved in the pileup. Local police responded to the incident at the…