When people walk into their local pharmacy or nutrition store in Virginia (VA) or North Carolina (NC), they usually feel safe buying and taking any supplements that are for sale.This is America, after all, and all those products have been tested, right? Wrong. Many reputable stores carry tainted products. Many people unknowingly spend a lot of…
In his latest post to our personal injury law firm’s Virginia Trucking Accident Attorney Blog, my colleague John C. calls for the expansion of programs in which police and federal transportation officers conduct roadside inspections of tractor-trailers, other big rigs and tour buses. John points to statistics that show such safety checks keep unsafe commercial…
Causing a car accident is bad. Leaving the scene of that accident is even worse. It is a conscious decision to leave a person, who likely suffered a serious injury, in the road to fend for themselves. Unfortunately, hit-and-run accidents occur quite often. For example, an 18-year-old man was crossing Route 72 in North Lebanon…
A downed traffic light contributed to causing a deadly accident in eastern North Carolina as the winds and rains of Hurricane Irene lashed the central East Coast. A family returning to Northern Virginia after a vacation in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina (SC), was traveling through North Carolina when the big storm hit and knocked out power…
At a time when fatal crashes are declining across Virginia, law enforcement officers are struggling to work out why fatalities are spiking in one location. Eleven people have died in fatal accidents on the highways of Roanoke County during 2011, the Roanoke Times reports. That’s up more than 100 percent over the total for 2010,…