As Carolina personal injury and wrongful death attorneys, we often report on serious and fatal accidents caused by tractor-trailer drivers. Simply because commercial trucks are so much larger and heavier than cars, pickups, SUVs and motorcycles, the smallest mistake or briefest moment of distraction by a big rig operator can lead to tragedy. Truckers are…
A news story out of Asheboro, North Carolina (NC), might make you reconsider what it means to be a hero. A North Carolina woman who stopped to assist a person who had lost control and slammed into a guardrail on U.S. 64 is fighting for her life after being hit by a pickup truck. The…
In a new post to our firm’s North Carolina Injuryboard blog, my fellow wrongful death attorney Rick Shapiro reports on a multimillion civil trial jury award to a Florida (FL) family who lost a son to a teenager who was driving under the influence of alcohol. The underage driver had purchased alcohol at the store…
Memorial Day weekend means lounging poolside, grilling burgers and enjoying time with family and friends. Unfortunately, holiday weekends too often also mean traffic accidnents icrease. In fact, nine people were killed in as many accidents this year over the three day weekend. Police report that seven drivers and two passengers were killed in crashes in Augusta,…
Mid-air collision between planes occur rarely. But when such crashes happen, the results are often fatal. This was the sad reality when a Beechcraft BE-25 and a Piper PA-28 flew into each other over the town of Sumerduck, Virginia (VA), on Memorial Day 2012. Officials do not know why the two small, privately owned aircraft…