What Happened? The personal injury law firm of Shapiro, Washburn & Sharp participated in the Virginia Beach, Virginia Town Center “Light up the Town Parade.” Following the theme of “Holidays at the Beach” the law firm designed and built a float from scratch with great gusto to participate in the exciting parade route. The Virginia…
What happened: The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA) recently granted a two-year award of $1 million to a team of researchers from UMass Lowell, Duke University, the University of Vermont, the University of Alaska, Fairbanks and Penn State Altoona. The purpose of the research is to develop an automated system…
What happened: A 52 year-old state employee has been charged with second-degree murder, DWI and crossing the center lane after slamming head-on into a mini-van and killing the other driver. The man was driving a state-owned dump truck and was on duty when the crash occurred. Police found a beer can near the truck and…
New research by the University of Illinois at Chicago found that people who are intoxicated have a better chance of surviving a traumatic brain injury. Offering a possible explanation as to why drunk drivers very often survive from accidents they cause, results showed the drunker someone is, the stronger their chances are to walk away…
What happened: A recent article in US News Health reported on a new study which found that drivers who suffer from advanced glaucoma have twice as many accidents as drivers with normal vision. There are more than 2.7 million Americans age 40 and older who suffer from the eye disease. Glaucoma is caused when fluid…