Halloween is quickly approaching, and that means costumes and candy. It also means millions of children will be out on the streets trick-or-treating. However, perhaps the scariest aspect of Halloween is that the number of traffic deaths involving young children will increase 4.5 times that evening once the sun goes down. Many drivers have…
A new study points to the shortcomings of many child booster seats, my colleague Kevin Duffan reports on our firm’s Virginia Beach, Chesapeake and Suffolk Injuryboard blog site. The A study from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety revealed that 13 booster seats – about half of those studied – were not a good fit with…
The body of a young man was discovered at the Norfolk Southern train tracks of 23rd Street and Granby Street. The victim was Stacy Pryear of Newport News, Virginia (VA). He was only 26 years old. Police are investigating his death and have not officially stated that Pryear was hit and killed by a train….
A woman from Smithfield, Virginia (VA), was charged with drunken driving after she hit a state trooper’s cruiser on U.S. 258 in Southampton County and sent the officer to a local hospital with neck and back injuries. The Daily Press is reporting that the at-fault driver is also facing a marijuana possession charge. According to state police,…
A Virginia State trooper was assisting a disabled tractor-trailer move to the right shoulder of U.S. 258 just after midnight on October 17, 2011, when a car rear-ended the trooper’s cruiser and caused him neck and back injuries. According to media reports, the trooper had his lights flashing, but was parked in a way that…