A car crossed the center line of Monrovia Road in Orange County, Virginia (VA), during the afternoon of July 20, 2012, clipped a Jeep, and collided head-on with another car. The crashes near the intersection with Shady Grove Lane caused the Jeep to roll over and took the lives of the at-fault driver and the…
Five years after complications from a broken hip took the life of their mother, a Missouri (MO) family won a 1.5 million wrongful death jury award against the nursing home where the woman had been a patient. Evidence presented at trial showed that even though the patient was identified as being at extreme risk for…
This month, we covered a Fairfax County garbage truck accident that highlighted some of the dangers of sharing the road with commercial vehicles – the heavy, slow trucks make wide turns and sudden stops. However, there are a number of steps that other drivers on the road can take to prevent garbage truck accidents and…
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission on July 12, 2012, announced the recall of nearly 500,000 Chicco Polly High Chairs sold in the United States and Canada since January 2005. Federal regulators have received more than 20 reports of young children suffering cuts and bruises when falling onto uncovered pegs designed to hold the feeding…
What Happened: Two North Carolina teens were tragically killed when the car they were riding in left the road and hit a tree on July 9, 2012. The car accident occurred on NC 41, just south of Fairmont, NC. The driver and two other passengers were also injured. Police do not think alcohol was a…